{"id":2493,"date":"2008-01-29T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/cracking-the-casinos-code\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:51:22","slug":"cracking-the-casinos-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/cracking-the-casinos-code\/","title":{"rendered":"CRACKING the casinos&#8217; CODE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1250\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve gone to a casino, it&#8217;s not a coincidence if you felt drawn in by the flashing lights, ringing bells and the maze of slot machines.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly how casino operators want it to be, said Karen Finlay, associate professor at the University of Guelph&#8217;s school of Marketing and Consumer Studies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the design of the casino,&#8221; said Finlay, who has studied the issue of problem gambling for several years.<\/p>\n<p>Finlay and a team of researchers at the university recently unveiled a lab known as &#8216;Virtual Vegas&#8217; &#8211; a 360-degree, 1,700 square foot composite of 17 of the Sin City&#8217;s most famous gaming floors. It&#8217;s aimed at helping researchers understand what compels people to keep playing even after they know it&#8217;s time to go home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: If you&#8217;ve gone to a casino, it&#8217;s not a coincidence if you felt drawn in by the flashing lights, ringing bells and the maze of slot machines. That&#8217;s exactly how casino operators want it to be, said Karen Finlay, associate professor at the University of Guelph&#8217;s school of Marketing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}