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what are the characteristics of the lootbox?
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what are the characteristics of the lootbox?
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- **closed box with objects inside**
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- **closed box with objects inside**
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- The loot box is a digital or physical box.
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- A loot box is a digital or physical box.
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- A loot box is a virtual box inside video games containing randomized items.
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- A loot box is a virtual box inside video games containing randomized items.
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- A loot box is a virtual box of hidden motives designed to persuade and/or trick players.
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- A loot box is a virtual box of hidden motives designed to persuade and/or trick players.
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- A virtual box where the user can pay and access products/items that can be useful to go on with the game, or can be collectible.
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- A virtual box where the user can pay and access products/items that can be useful to go on with the game, or can be collectible.
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- A lottery box.
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- A lottery box.
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- **a gift to yourself**
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- They look like real gifts, but you purchase them for yourself.
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- I choose.
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- I get something nice.
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- **the box is embedded in a context**
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- It works within the context of a game.
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- It works outside the context of a game.
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- When the game gets tough, the loot box offers you a shortcut.
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- **payment**
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- **payment**
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- The loot box is a virtual feature players can purchase with real money in free-to-play games or full-price-games.
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- The loot box is a virtual feature players can purchase with real money in free-to-play games or full-price-games.
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- You don´t get it for free, and you don't know what you get.
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- You don´t get it for free, and you don't know what you get.
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- A player pays real money to buy a virtual treasure box HOPING it contains something valuable within the world of the game.
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- I payed real money to buy a virtual treasure box HOPING it contains something valuable within the world of the game.
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- **fast-thinking**
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- It is what motivates immediate irrational purchases.
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- It can be rational in the context of the game.
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- A quest, narrative, social pressure or else can justify any loot boxes.
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- It appears and disappears quickly in order to seem exclusive and to make the player buy it without thinking too much.
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- Time pressure creates artificial urgency.
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- Excitement-anticipation.
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- A feeling of excitement and anticipation could be related to the excitement of gambling.
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- You know that there is a chance of getting some items that you desire.
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- It is desirable because it creates the chances that you get a really rare or powerful item out of it.
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- It is like gambling because you don't know what is inside of it.
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- **surprise mechanism**
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- **surprise mechanism**
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- The element of surprise is a highly appreciated aspect of the loot box.
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- The element of surprise is a highly appreciated aspect of the loot box.
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- It keeps the players hooked to the game by using an element of surprise.
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- It keeps the players hooked to the game by using an element of surprise.
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- The player never knows what is inside of it.
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- The player never knows what is inside of it.
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- Surprise that comes with consequences.
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- Surprise that comes with consequences.
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- Reward.
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- **a gift to yourself**
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- **immediate reward**
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- They look like real gifts, but you purchase them for yourself.
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- Reward.
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- You choose.
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- The immediate reward makes it fun, the risk comes with pleasure.
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- You get something nice.
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- Loot box derives from the loot, a bunch of goodies that you can get as a reward after you conquer a super boss or level up.
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- A reward after accomplishing a really heroic task.
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- An immediately rewarding response preceded by a generally customized trigger.
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- A rewarding experience.
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- A guaranteed reward in exchange for money.
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- Progress in the game.
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- You have more power in the game.
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- Some players might even feel cornered into purchasing loot boxes as the game cannot reach its full potential without it.
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- You will get better if you buy one.
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- **emotional response**
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- **emotional response**
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- Strong emotional reactions are tied to finances.
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- Strong emotional reactions are tied to finances.
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- Desire.
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- Desire.
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- Disappointment.
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- Disappointment.
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- **repetition**
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- A rewarding mechanism.
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- Even if you don't get exactly what you wish for, you will get something, and you feel somehow rewarded.
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- It's collectible.
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- Incremental rewards.
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- It is disguised as safe and innocent.
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- You can keep opening loot boxes forever.
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- **it interfaces the game and the real world**
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- It is an alternate reality experience of collecting things you can't own in real life.
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- It is a pulse in the circulation of resources between a virtual game and the reality outside of it.
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- **loot box as currency exchange**
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- Game coin.
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- Collectible item.
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- Real money.
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- Power-Up.
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- **designed to be addictive**
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- **designed to be addictive**
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- Very real addictive mechanisms.
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- Very real addictive mechanisms.
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- A repeated scheme that ensures constant spending into virtual game currencies.
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- A repeated scheme that ensures constant spending into virtual game currencies.
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- It ensures that you keep playing potentially forever.
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- It ensures that you keep playing potentially forever.
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- From habit to addiction.
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- From habit to addiction.
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- You would pay weird amounts of money to obtain something new.
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- You would pay weird amounts of money to obtain something new.
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- Risk
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- **fast-thinking**
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- Ritual
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- It is what motivates immediate irrational purchases.
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- Destiny
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- It can be rational in the context of the game.
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- A quest, narrative, social pressure or else can justify any loot boxes.
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- It appears and disappears quickly in order to seem exclusive and to make the player buy it without thinking too much.
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- Time pressure creates artificial urgency.
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- Excitement-anticipation.
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- A feeling of excitement and anticipation could be related to the excitement of gambling.
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- You know that there is a chance of getting some items that you desire.
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- It is desirable because it creates the chances that you get a really rare or powerful item out of it.
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- It is like gambling because you don't know what is inside of it.
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- **immediate reward**
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- The immediate reward makes it fun, the risk comes with pleasure.
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- Loot box derives from the loot, a bunch of goodies that you can get as a reward after you conquer a super boss or level up.
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- A reward after accomplishing a really heroic task.
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- An immediately rewarding response preceded by a generally customized trigger.
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- A rewarding experience.
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- A guaranteed reward in exchange for money.
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- Progress in the game.
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- You have more power in the game.
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- Some players might even feel cornered into purchasing loot boxes as the game cannot reach its full potential without it.
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- - You will get better if you buy one.
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- **it hacks the temporality of a game**
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- **it hacks the temporality of a game**
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- It allows you to customize your game character.
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- It allows you to customize your game character.
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- The benefits for you are emotional. The benefits for the game platforms are financial.
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- The benefits for you are emotional. The benefits for the game platforms are financial.
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- A money-making mechanism that uses real world money in video games' worlds.
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- A money-making mechanism that uses real world money in video games' worlds.
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- **repetition**
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- A rewarding mechanism.
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- Even if you don't get exactly what you wish for, you will get something, and you feel somehow rewarded.
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- It's collectible.
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- Incremental rewards.
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- It is disguised as safe and innocent
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- You can keep opening loot boxes forever.
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- **It targets vulnerable players**
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- **It targets vulnerable players**
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- A trigger for addictive behavior
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- A trigger for addictive behavior.
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- A trigger for toxic behavior.
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- A trigger for toxic behavior.
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- It has no limitations
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- It has no limitations.
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- An escape from the real life.
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- An escape from the real life.
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- **FOMO**
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- **FOMO**
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- Peer pressure
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- Peer pressure
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- Social pressure
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- Social pressure
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- **it interfaces the game and the real world**
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- It is an alternate reality experience of collecting things you can't own in real life.
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- It is a pulse in the circulation of resources between a virtual game and the reality outside of it.
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- **loot box as currency exchange**
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- Game coin
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- Collectible item
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- Real money
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- Power-Up
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- **the box is embedded in a context**
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- It works within the context of a game.
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- It works outside the context of a game.
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- When the game gets tough, the loot box offers you a shortcut.
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- How does exposing the inner workings and real motives of the loot box affect the players' behavior and decision making?
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- How does exposing the inner workings and real motives of the loot box affect the players' behavior and decision making?
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- The combination of payment and surprise can have the following effects:
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- **an individual engagement**
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- Gambling
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- A personalized 1 to 1 interaction.
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- Addiction
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- Risk
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- Ritual
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- Destiny
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- Exploitation
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- etc.
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- Risk
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- Reward
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- Surprise
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- Disappointment
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- general individual engagement
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- a personalized 1 to 1 interaction
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- 1 to machine interaction.
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- 1 to machine interaction.
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