Topic: How Casinos Use Psychology to Influence Gamblers - page 10. (Read 1173 times)

I learned about this in a documentary and funnily enough supermarkets designed the same way to attract people and spend more on their store.

anyway, I remember from the documentary that even the placement of their tables, games, etc... was carefully designed to maximize the amount of time people would spend at the casino. supermarkets also use the same technique.

Casinos’ use of psychology to influence customer behavior is both common and controversial. On the one hand, it can be argued that casinos provide entertainment, and that using scientific methods to improve customer experience is a natural part of the industry. On the other hand, some argue that these practices exploit people’s psychological vulnerabilities and increase the risk of gambling addiction. The evaluation of these practices depends on personal opinion, but it is important to be aware of these methods and make informed decisions about our participation in games of chance. Casinos are carefully designed to encourage continuous play, so we must be careful and set limits for ourselves.

There is also the component of casinos and lotteries to heavily advertise whenever there is a lucky gambler who manages to get a big win, so that lucky gambler can be used as a good public relationship strategy to bring in move people to wager their money. It is obvious, you never see a casino or a lottery bragging on how much their gamblers lose when playing with them, but they seem to celebrate and show off each time they pay an important sum of money, it is an easy way to light the hopes and the greed of those who would have not considered to gamble otherwise.

Also, Casinos and resorts have attractive and well mannered women as part of their staff to make their gamblers feel comfortable and keep them going, the managers of those big businesses are very aware most of their costumers are men with enough money to flush down the toilet. There is a psychological and even sexual aspect on it.

The ambiance, the sound. You know those stuff aren't really getting noticed by the gamblers whether it's with the physical or online casinos but they're impactful to the gamblers. But I think it's more impactful with the physical casinos when you feel the ambiance and you get to vibe with the other gamblers there. AFAIK, the sounds that are from the games inside the premises and even online have a psychological effect to the gamblers and that's one of the reasons why it stimulates our minds and emotions and makes us coming back from time to time.

We have discussed this before on this gambling board. The reward, the workers, casino looking like it is not yet night, no clock et cetera. Also you are with people that you can interact with.

It is you that will discipline yourself. You have your wrist watch or your mobile phone with you. Knowing what the time is should not be a problem. Do not drink to stupor or in a way you will not be conscious of your environment. Do not drink to the extent that you will not know what that you are doing.

Maybe you can also add in the design, the games that is place near the entrance is the most attractive games like slot machines and then card games and roulette. At least in the casino that I played, once you entered, it is going to be roulette first and so there are a lot of players on them. They have 4 roulette table and most likely 2 out of that 4 is fully jam pack with players.

And obvious slot machines, gambling operators also do know the psychology, that's why they created slot games that really like a magnet and it's different themes makes it people somewhat drawn into it.

The point you made in my opinion is correct, because indeed with the first of course the casino will give the best for its visitors to stay in the casino, one way is to give or hold a prize or bonus, of course this can attract visitors. Moreover, with the bonus provided, it can be obtained by many visitors, in other words the prize is not only for one person, this can make visitors more comfortable gambling in the casino.
With the casino design, it seems like this is more of a secondary number but it can also be decisive, a casino that has a large room will be able to make visitors more comfortable than a casino that has a small room, because the casino will certainly get a lot of people and if the room is small, it seems like this will be quite difficult for visitors and even the staff. And with free drinks or snacks, this is more of another strategy to make visitors comfortable in the casino, although there are some rich people, it doesn't mean they don't want something like this, because in my opinion getting free food or drinks is something that many people like.

I've been fascinated on how casinos really attracted gamblers on the games that they have that people come back for more even if they lose money. I'm talking about land base casinos here as it is really very attractive and the atmosphere are different.

So from what I observed, there are some that I think that might add to it's aura that's why we do play on them.

1. Incentives and Rewards - majority of casinos have this membership card, and so when you play and you used it, you will accumulate points and you can used this points like to get free merchandise from them. I even have been given free hotel accommodation.

2. Design of casinos - it was really brilliantly crafted by the design itself, very big, no clocks inside, and then the color could have played as well, like gold and red which they say is the lucky color or color of money.

3. Free drinks/alcohol and then there are live band - So they gave you free drinks and alcohol, but perhaps you make you drunk and so your judgement is clouded and potentially you losing big money. And then there are entertainment, such as live bands performing every hour to keep you inside and watch and have some fun while at the same time losing money.

Maybe you can add to it as what are you think we keep on coming back as if we are under the spell of this big casinos?