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  • Behavioral Economics
  • Gambling Studies

Background:

  • Gambling expenditure feedback can create cognitive dissonance when actual spending mismatches perceived spending.
  • Understanding gambler responses to financial feedback is crucial for responsible gambling initiatives.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between cognitive dissonance, triggered by personalized gambling expenditure feedback, and subsequent changes in gambling behavior.
  • To test the hypothesis that gamblers experiencing cognitive dissonance would reduce their spending more than those without.

Main Methods:

  • A large sample (N=11,829) of Norwegian online gamblers from Norsk Tipping were invited to view their 6-month gambling losses.
  • 4,045 gamblers accessed their data and reported if losses were more than, as much as, or less than expected.
  • A machine-learning tree algorithm was used to analyze gambler types and their spending reduction patterns.

Main Results:

  • Overall, players without cognitive dissonance reduced their gambling expenditure more than those experiencing it, contradicting the initial hypothesis.
  • A nuanced analysis revealed that specific gambler types, identified by the machine-learning algorithm, explained this paradoxical outcome.
  • Certain gambler profiles showed increased spending reduction when dissonance was present, aligning with the hypothesis.

Conclusions:

  • The impact of cognitive dissonance on gambling expenditure reduction is complex and depends on individual gambler typologies.
  • Personalized financial feedback in gambling requires careful consideration of psychological responses and individual differences.
  • Machine-learning approaches can uncover intricate patterns in gambling behavior that simpler analyses might miss.