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WVU psychologist ‘reverse engineers’ slot machines to better understand compulsive gambling
A West Virginia University researcher is studying slot machines to determine what makes them a potentially addictive form of gambling.
Mariya Cherkasova, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, will spend the next two years reverse engineering certain structural characteristics of slot machines to find out what makes them an immersive product. Her research is supported by the International Center for Responsible Gaming.
