Over-Indebtedness and Problem Gambling in a General Population Sample of Online Gamblers
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 BackgroundOnline gambling has increased in recent years, including online casino games and live sports betting which constitute rapid gambling activities with significant potential for gambling-related harm.
Anders Håkansson, Carolina Widinghoff
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A longitudinal replication study testing migration from video game loot boxes to gambling in British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Loot boxes are randomized reward mechanics in modern video games that share features with conventional gambling products. Research studies have begun to test longitudinal patterns (“migration”) from engagement with loot boxes to gambling ...
Lucas Palmer +2 more
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Use and impact of government-mandated activity statements for online gambling in Australia [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground Since July 2022, the Australian government has required online wagering operators to send all active customers activity statements as part of the National Consumer Protection Framework in an effort to reduce gambling harms.
Sally M. Gainsbury +2 more
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Stigmatisation of gambling disorder in social media: a tailored deep learning approach for YouTube comments [PDF]
Harm Reduction JournalBackground The stigmatisation of gamblers, particularly those with a gambling disorder, and self-stigmatisation are considered substantial barriers to seeking help and treatment.
Johannes Singer
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The impact of gambling advertising on gambling severity: a path analysis of factors of psychological distress in individuals with gambling disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyBackgroundThere is a consensus in the literature that gambling advertising disproportionately affects those experiencing higher gambling severity.
Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez +12 more
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Optical Realization of Quantum Gambling Machine [PDF]
arXiv, 2000 Quantum gambling --- a secure remote two-party protocol which has no classical counterpart --- is demonstrated through optical approach. A photon is prepared by Alice in a superposition state of two potential paths. Then one path leads to Bob and is split into two parts.
Yongsheng Zhang +4 more
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Multiple-interaction kinetic modelling of a virtual-item gambling economy [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 100, 012308 (2019), 2019 In recent years, there has been a proliferation of online gambling sites, which made gambling more accessible with a consequent rise in related problems, such as addiction. Hence, the analysis of the gambling behaviour at both the individual and the aggregate levels has become the object of several investigations.
Toscani, Giuseppe +2 more
arxiv +5 more sources
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Over the last decade, the provision of online gambling has intensified with increased access, enhanced betting markets, a broader product range, and prolific marketing.
Nerilee Hing +6 more
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An empirical study on attitudes toward gambling when sportswashing is involved
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Sportswashing is defined as individuals, groups, companies, or countries/regimes’ involvement in sports to improve their own reputation and/or to distract from or normalize wrongdoing.
André Syvertsen +23 more
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Who is Gambling? Finding Cryptocurrency Gamblers Using Multi-modal Retrieval Methods [PDF]
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (2022):
1-13, 2022 With the popularity of cryptocurrencies and the remarkable development of blockchain technology, decentralized applications emerged as a revolutionary force for the Internet. Meanwhile, decentralized applications have also attracted intense attention from the online gambling community, with more and more decentralized gambling platforms created through
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