How could a game with literally no skill involved capture attention and compel behavior in such a robust way?īehavioral psychology has as good an answer as any.
If you haven’t caught the gambling bug and you’ve ever been to a large casino you were probably stupefied and maybe a little saddened by the almost zombie like people staring blankly at the slot machine screens, mechanically sliding coins into the slots and pulling the levers, over and over, not for seconds or minutes but for hours on end.
