Listening to an avatar makes you more likely to gamble (IMAGE)

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Listening to an avatar makes you more likely to gamble

Caption

Participants performed a gambling task in the presence of a human observer, choosing between a safe (certain) option and a gamble (probabilistic) option. They were instructed to look at the observer’s face, which was presented either as an avatar or as a real human. Participants were informed that the avatar’s facial expressions and movements mirrored those of the real human observer. The authors found that participants made more gambling choices in the avatar condition than in the human condition.

Credit

Toshiko Tanaka (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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