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Clara Webb, writer on slot mechanics and gambling psychology

Writer on slot mechanics and gambling psychology

Working from published research and from each game’s own information panel — what the near-miss effect is, what volatility changes, and what a session costs.

2026 Last reviewed
6 Articles Published
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About Clara

Clara Webb covers slot mechanics and the psychology around them: the near-miss effect as measured by Clark and colleagues in Neuron in 2009, the «losses disguised as wins» work from the University of Waterloo, Zajonc’s mere-exposure effect, and the virtual-reel mapping patented in 1984 that made modern paytables unreadable from the reels. Her method is deliberately narrow: name the study, give the figure it actually produced, and point the reader at the game’s own information panel for the numbers that apply to them. Where a claim cannot be sourced, her articles say so instead of estimating — and where an earlier version of a page stated something that cannot be supported, the current version retracts it in place.

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6 Articles Published

Frequently Asked Questions About Clara Webb

What does Clara Webb write about?

How slots are built and how they are perceived: the near-miss effect, celebrated outcomes that return less than the stake, volatility and deployed RTP, mere exposure, and the arithmetic of what a session costs. Each article names the research or the published term it rests on.

What are her articles based on?

Published research and published figures — peer-reviewed studies where they exist, patent records, and each game’s own information panel. Not interviews, not play-testing and not session data. Where nothing is published, her articles say that rather than fill the gap.

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