'Return to player' information given to gamblers is unintuitive, misleading and often incorrect

Addiction. 2024 Apr 14. doi: 10.1111/add.16505. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Jussi Palomäki^{1

2}, Anton Kunnari³, Michael Laakasuo^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
² Cognitive Science, Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

PMID: 38616045
DOI: 10.1111/add.16505

No abstract available

Keywords: Cognitive bias; expected value; gambler's fallacy; gambling; problem gambling; return to player.

Publication types

Letter

Grants and funding

§52 Appropriation of the Lotteries Act in Finland