Designed to deceive: how gambling distorts reality and hooks your brain
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Mike Robinson, Wesleyan University
To call gambling a “game of chance” evokes fun, random luck and a sense of collective engagement. These playful connotations may be part of why almost 80 percent of American adults gamble at some point in their lifetime. When I ask my psychology students why they think people gamble, the most frequent suggestions are for pleasure, money or the thrill.
While these might be reasons why people gamble initially, psychologists don’t definitely know why, for some...
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