caa a22 4500 445837314 CHVBK 20180317145333.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10899-010-9213-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10899-010-9213-1 Audience Influence on EGM Gambling: The Protective Effects of Having Others Watch You Play [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew Rockloff, Nancy Greer] One component of social facilitation on gambling is the potential for an audience of people to observe the play of Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) gamblers and influence their behaviour without participating directly in gambling themselves. An experiment was conducted with an audience of onlookers, purported to be students of research methods, taking notes while watching the participants play an EGM. Forty-three male and 82 female participants (N=125), aged 18-79 (M=49.2, SD=15.6), played a laptop simulated 3-reel EGM using a $20 stake in three conditions: (1) alone, (2) watched by a simulated audience of six persons, or (3) watched by an audience of 26. Outcomes on the poker machine were rigged with a fixed sequence of five wins in the first 20 spins and indefinite losses thereafter. The results found smaller bet-sizes associated with larger audiences of onlookers, and this outcome is consistent with a hypothesized motivation to display more wins to the audience. Moreover, final payouts were greater in the audience conditions compared to the control, further suggesting that an audience may be a protective factor limiting player losses. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 EGM nationallicence EGMs nationallicence Poker nationallicence Slot nationallicence Fruit nationallicence Gambling nationallicence Pathological gambling nationallicence Rockloff Matthew Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Central Queensland University, 4670, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia aut Greer Nancy Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Central Queensland University, 4670, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia aut Journal of Gambling Studies Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/3(2011-09-01), 443-451 1573-3602 27:3<443 2011 27 10899 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-010-9213-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-010-9213-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rockloff Matthew Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Central Queensland University, 4670, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Greer Nancy Institute for Health and Social Science Research, Central Queensland University, 4670, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Gambling Studies Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/3(2011-09-01), 443-451 1573-3602 27:3<443 2011 27 10899 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer