{"title":"Advertising slogans in the gambling industry: content analysis informed by the heuristics and biases literature","authors":"M. Krawczyk, Łukasz Własiuk","doi":"10.4309/JGI.2021.47.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyse the contents of over a thousand gambling slogans. We identify several features considered in the literature that the slogans might capitalize on. In particular, we investigate heuristics and biases analyzed in the behavioural economics of decision making under risk, such as the gambler’s fallacy. We then employ factor analysis to identify the main types of heuristics and biases showing up in the analyzed slogans. We find three naturally interpretable factors and show that they intuitively correlate with the type of game each slogan advertised. We also construct an index of potentially dangerous features a slogan might have and show that their use subsided slightly in the UK after the Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising was implemented in 2007. Resume Cet article porte sur l’analyse de plus d’un millier de slogans sur les jeux de hasard. Nous retrouvons dans ces slogans de nombreuses caracteristiques evoquees dans la litterature sur le sujet, en particulier les heuristiques et biais analyses en economie comportementale dans la prise de decision en situation de risque, comme l’illusion du joueur. Au moyen d’une analyse factorielle, nous degageons les trois principaux types d’heuristiques et de biais qui se manifestent dans les slogans etudies. Nous decelons ensuite trois facteurs interpretables et demontrons leurs correlations intuitives avec le type de jeu dont chaque slogan fait la promotion. Enfin, nous proposons un index des caracteristiques potentiellement dangereuses des slogans sur les jeux de hasard et demontrons que l’emploi de ceux-ci a diminue legerement au Royaume-Uni apres l’adoption du Gambling Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising en 2007.","PeriodicalId":45414,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gambling Issues","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Gambling Issues","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4309/JGI.2021.47.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"SUBSTANCE ABUSE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper, we analyse the contents of over a thousand gambling slogans. We identify several features considered in the literature that the slogans might capitalize on. In particular, we investigate heuristics and biases analyzed in the behavioural economics of decision making under risk, such as the gambler’s fallacy. We then employ factor analysis to identify the main types of heuristics and biases showing up in the analyzed slogans. We find three naturally interpretable factors and show that they intuitively correlate with the type of game each slogan advertised. We also construct an index of potentially dangerous features a slogan might have and show that their use subsided slightly in the UK after the Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising was implemented in 2007. Resume Cet article porte sur l’analyse de plus d’un millier de slogans sur les jeux de hasard. Nous retrouvons dans ces slogans de nombreuses caracteristiques evoquees dans la litterature sur le sujet, en particulier les heuristiques et biais analyses en economie comportementale dans la prise de decision en situation de risque, comme l’illusion du joueur. Au moyen d’une analyse factorielle, nous degageons les trois principaux types d’heuristiques et de biais qui se manifestent dans les slogans etudies. Nous decelons ensuite trois facteurs interpretables et demontrons leurs correlations intuitives avec le type de jeu dont chaque slogan fait la promotion. Enfin, nous proposons un index des caracteristiques potentiellement dangereuses des slogans sur les jeux de hasard et demontrons que l’emploi de ceux-ci a diminue legerement au Royaume-Uni apres l’adoption du Gambling Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising en 2007.