{"id":44374,"date":"2026-06-17T03:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/research-project-given-over-1m-to-investigate-childrens-use-of-loot-boxes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:57:06","slug":"research-project-given-over-1m-to-investigate-childrens-use-of-loot-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/research-project-given-over-1m-to-investigate-childrens-use-of-loot-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Research project given over $1m to investigate children\u2019s use of loot boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK psychologist has been awarded over $1.2 million to research how children\u2019s development is influenced by gambling-like systems in video games, such as loot boxes. Dr. Calum Hartley of Lancaster University will primarily focus on elementary school children\u2019s engagement with loot boxes in video games&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/loot-boxes-research\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK psychologist has been awarded over $1.2 million to research how children\u2019s development is influenced by gambling-like systems in video games, such as loot boxes. Dr. Calum Hartley of Lancaster University will primarily focus on elementary school children\u2019s engagement with loot boxes in video games&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}