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The Candy Crush Sweet Tooth: How ‘Near-misses’ in Candy Crush Increase Frustration, and the Urge to Continue Gameplay

Like many gambling games, the exceedingly popular and lucrative smartphone game “Candy Crush” features near-miss outcomes. In slot machines, a near-miss involves getting two of the needed three high-paying symbols on the pay-line (i.e., just missing the big win). In Candy Crush, the game signals whe...

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Autores principales: Larche, Chanel J., Musielak, Natalia, Dixon, Mike J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27435416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10899-016-9633-7