Video game loot boxes are psychologically akin to gambling

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Human Behaviour, June 2018

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Knoxville Science Aggregator, 22 Jun 2018

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Nature, 21 Jun 2018

Video game ‘loot boxes’ can meet the structural and psychological criteria for gambling, argues a Comment piece published in…

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