Facebook games the gateway drug of gambling, says UK psychologist
Free Facebook games are the “number one risk factor” for adolescent gambling addiction, according to British psychologist and co-founder of GamCare, Dr Mark Griffiths.
In a new interview with RightCasino.com, Dr Griffiths states that popular titles such as Zynga Poker and Slotomania are ‘conditioning’ underage users into becoming a new generation of online gamblers:
“Kids are being socially conditioned, behaviourally conditioned to know all the rules of the game, to know how to play…anecdotally I know a number of children who just can’t wait to be old enough to play on poker sites for instance."...