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Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling

A study of Mind & Behaviour Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling A study of Mind & Behaviour

If I have more ‘goes’ I have a better chance of winning Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Cognitive bias If I have more ‘goes’ I have a better chance of winning Why is this ‘thought’ irrational? Is the gambler right?

Rational choice theory predicts that people will NOT gamble! Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Rational choice theory predicts that people will NOT gamble! Theory: Gamblers gamble because they make the wrong decisions …. because of cognitive distortions

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling The ILLUSION of CONTROL e.g. If I choose which machine to play I am more likely to win same as buying 2 lottery tickets!

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Biased Attribution When I win it’s because I am skilled but when I lose its just ‘bad luck’

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Faulty ‘representativeness’ ! The probability of winning increases in relation to the number of ‘goes’

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Illusory Correlation ! If I throw the dice hard I am more likely to get a ‘six’

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Observable behaviour Is this rational? That machine likes me !

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Research Question: Do regular gamblers ‘think’ & ‘behave’ differently to non-regular gamblers?

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Hypothesis: There are significant differences in the thought processes of regular and non-regular gamblers There are significant differences in the behaviours of regular and non-regular gamblers

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Method A Quasi Experiment 2 groups of participants IV = regular or non-regular gambler

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling PARTICIPANTS 30 regular gamblers 30 non-regular gamblers Regular 29m & 1f play at least once week Non-regular 15m & 15f play once month or less Volunteer Sample Recruited via a POSTER

I won because I was quick Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling I won because I was quick The ‘subjective’ DVs (1) Cognitive activity measured by ‘thinking aloud’ (2) Perception of SKILL measured by post - experiment semi structured interview

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling The ‘objective’ (behavioural) DVs Total number of plays in session Total minutes of play in session Total plays per minute in session End stake – total winnings Total number of wins in session Win rate (time) – time between wins Win rate (plays) – number of plays between wins

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Procedure In Arcade each participant given £3 to gamble on machine that gave 30 free gambles Objective: To stay on machine for 60 gambles To break even & win back the £3 If they achieved 60 gambles they could choose to keep the ££ or carry on gambling

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Controls All participants played same machine ‘Fruitskill’ Randomly assigned to thinking aloud / non-thinking aloud All recordings transcribed within 24 hours Say everything that goes through your mind Do not censor your thoughts Keep talking continuously Don’t have to speak in complete sentences

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Behavioural FINDINGS: DV Non Regular NTA Regular   Non TA Total Plays 47.8 56.3 55.7 65.6 Total Time 8.4 8.5 11.5 9.9 Play Rate ** 6.5 7.5 5.3 End Stake 4.0 7.3 13.9 Win 6.1 8.0 8.3 6.0 Win rate - time 2.0 1.0 1.7 1.8 Win rate plays ** 12.5 14.6

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Content Analysis Examples of FINDINGS: DV Non Regular Regular   Machine personification ** 1.14 7.54 Explaining losses 0.41 3.12 Talk to the machine 0.90 2.64 Swear at machine 0.08 0.06 Reference to skill 1.47 5.34 Verbalising confusion *** 4.81 1.72

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Is there any skill involved? regular Non regular Mostly Chance 10 19 Equal chance / skill * 18 7 Knowing when machine will pay out 8

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling IRRATIONAL VERBALISATION This ‘fruity’ is not in a good mood It wants its money back Putting only a quid in ‘bluffs the machine’ The machine … hates me This machine won’t pay out happily

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling More FINDINGS: 14 regular gamblers managed to ‘break even’ (60 gambles) - 10 stayed on machine until they lost all the money 7 non-regular gamblers broke even - 2 stayed on until lost all the money

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Conclusions: Regular gamblers are more skilful e.g. knowing the reels & when to nudge Regular gamblers believe they are more skillful than they are Gamblers know they will ‘lose’ but they play with money not for it (staying on is the objective Regular gamblers make more irrational verbalisations demonstrating cognitive bias

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Is this useful to know? May help to rehabilitate ‘gambling addicts’ because Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be used to help ‘problem gamblers’ change the way they think (recognise and change their cognitive bias) and behave e.g. by playing back their irrational thinking

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling Evaluative points: ++ both quantitative and qualitative DV ?? validity – re: the ‘thinking aloud method’ ?? reliability of content analysis ?? biased sample (29 male regular gamblers) does this matter - why or why not? ?? ecological validity (level of realism) ?? generalisability to other ‘gambling’ e.g horse racing, dice, roulette – why or why not?

Griffiths (1994) The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling The end !