“…Social facilitation can alter gamblers' attribution of others' personal skills or control by drawing attention to their successes in gambling games as in so-called IOC 'by proxy' (Wohl & Enzle, 2009). Social facilitation has been observed in shifts towards risky betting patterns in children and adults (Caron & Ladouceur, 2003;Cole et al, 2011;Dykstra & Dollinger, 1990;Hardoon & Derevensky, 2001;Le Floch, Martinez, & Gaffie, 2005;Rockloff & Dyer, 2007) and the effect appears to be dosedependent, increasing incrementally with the number of other individuals participating in games (Rockloff, Greer, & Fay, 2011). Experiment 2, therefore, introduced a 2-player die-rolling game the 'Bone Game'to examine whether the action-based expressions of IOC in games of dice are enhanced by social facilitation and/or encompass IOC by proxy (Wohl & Enzle, 2009).…”