Is the Buying of Loot Boxes in Video Games a Form of Gambling or Gaming?

By Mark D. Griffiths. 2018

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/615f96149d445a825ca01b0cbbf6ff7970b58786

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1. Lauren C. Hall
2. James D. Sauer
3. S. Garea
4. M. Williams
5. Aaron Drummond

Citations in the corpus

• Meta-analysis of the relationship between problem gambling, excessive gaming and loot box spending (2021, background): “…often delivered on a variable-ratio reward schedule – a reinforcement schedule known to promote the rapid uptake and frequent repetition of behavior, and present in most forms of conventional gambling (Derevensky & Griffiths, 2019; Drummond & Sauer, 2018; Ferster & Skinner, 1957; Griffiths, 2018).”