Most research on compulsive gambling focuses on the psychological, biological, or even moral profiles of gambling addicts—but the real problem may be the slot machines. MIT anthropologist Natasha Dow ...

Gamblers who feel like they enter into a trance while playing slot machines are more likely to have gambling problems, according to new research. Gamblers who feel like they enter into a trance while ...

The bells and whistles on slot machines can trick the brain into thinking players won something when they've actually lost money, according to a new gambling study, but some are questioning whether ...

Natasha Dow Schüll is an associate professor in the program in science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in ...

Back in 1987, I began my PhD on slot machine addiction, and one thing that I began to notice as I spent the first few hours of doing observational research in amusement arcades that there were many ...