SciShow Psych: What Slot Machines Can Tell Us About our Brains

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: The rise of lootboxes in video games has led to numerous investigations seeking to establish just how close to gambling they are. While the science behind lootboxes is only just beginning to come in, we do know a lot about how other forms of gambling take advantage of your brain and your pocket book. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/loot-boxes-gambling-video-games-ftc-look-it-n941256 https://dmarket.com/blog/most-expensive-steam-items/ https://www.psychestudy.com/behavioral/learning-memory/operant-conditioning/reinforcement-punishment/schedule-reinforcement https://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Intermittent+Reinforcement https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-extinction-2795176 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5908814 https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/31572339/ConceptOfFlow.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DConcept_Of_Flow.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20190728%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190728T192309Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=92c8544a5e44739da7b91f9b13c09348bd88e17812bf2f02fbc85836f3fb847b https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2016.0453 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/136e/9cf6b5a4d17dbe8400fa5d7f4bf3ad01f6ac.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022103166900758 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10899-017-9695-1 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201484 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352853218301032 https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066350410001728118 https://www.tomsguide.com/us/what-are-loot-boxes-microtransactions,news-26161.html https://pure.itu.dk/portal/files/83333144/DIGRA_2018_Are_loot_boxes_gambling_pre_print_21.05.2018.pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066350410001728118 https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0893-164X.15.2.155 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266109/ https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/30/18/6180.full.pdf https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206767 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460318315077


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