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Episode 63 - Loss Aversion

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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Getting Things Done Quickly on the Track

If you get three penalty points, you stay where you are, but the other cars move forward three spaces. So there can be an advantage to getting things done quickly. And we wanted that to be a valid decision. Because of the penalty points, and people didn't like moving backwards on the track. so because of my research and on loss eversion, as i came maybe we can change the frame on this,. We changed the rule that so that instead of you moving backwards, all the other cars moved forward, one space for each pa. Well, so mathematically it's exactly the same thing. And am, it was, it totally did the trick, you know, kidsy

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