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Excessive Gambling and Online Gambling Communities [PDF]
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2018 The Internet provides an accessible context for online gambling and gambling-related online communities, such as discussion forums for gamblers. These communities may be particularly attractive to young gamblers who are active Internet users. The aim of this study was to examine the use of gambling-related online communities and their relevance to ...
Anu Sirola +2 more
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Gambling and Comovements [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 AbstractThis study shows that correlated trading by gambling-motivated investors generates excess return comovement among stocks with lottery features. Lottery-like stocks comove strongly with one another, and this return comovement is strongest among lottery stocks located in regions where investors exhibit stronger gambling propensity.
Kumar, Alok +2 more
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2013 This paper presents a strategic model of risk-taking behavior in contests. Formally, we analyze an n-player winner-take-all contest in which each player decides when to stop a privately observed Brownian Motion with drift. A player whose process reaches zero has to stop. The player with the highest stopping point wins. Contrary to the explicit cost for
Christian Seel, Philipp Strack
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Disordered gambling, type of gambling and gambling involvement in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 [PDF]
The European Journal of Public Health, 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between types of gambling and disordered gambling, with and without controlling for gambling involvement (i.e. the number of types of games with which respondents were involved during the past 12 months).We completed a secondary data analysis of the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS)
Debi A, LaPlante +3 more
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Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2021 The purpose of this study is to provide an updated profile of gamblers and problem gamblers in Canada and to identify characteristics most strongly associated with problem gambling.An assessment of gambling participation and problem gambling was included in the 2018 Canadian Community Health Survey and administered to 23,952 individuals 18 years and ...
Robert J. Williams +9 more
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2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2011 A gambler walks into a hypothetical fair casino with a very real dollar bill, but by the time he leaves he's exchanged the dollar for a random amount of money. What is lost in the process? It may be that the gambler walks out at the end of the day, after a roller-coaster ride of winning and losing, with his dollar still intact, or maybe even with two ...
Paul Cuff +3 more
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Gambling and Problem Gambling Across the Lifespan [PDF]
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2010 Two national U.S. telephone surveys of gambling were conducted, an adult survey (age 18 and over, N = 2,631) in 1999-2000 and a youth (age 14-21, N = 2,274) survey in 2005-2007. The data from these surveys were combined to examine the prevalence of any gambling, frequent gambling and problem gambling across the lifespan.
John W, Welte +3 more
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Investigating Flow State and Cardiac Pre-ejection Period During Electronic Gaming Machine Use
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Flow activities (e.g. sports and gaming) have been associated with positive affect and prolonged engagement. In the gambling field, modern electronic gaming machines (EGMs, including modern slot machines) have drawn concern as a potentially flow-inducing
W. Spencer Murch +4 more
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Gambling formats, involvement, and problem gambling: which types of gambling are more risky?
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background The recognition of problem gambling as a public health issue has increased as the availability of gambling expands. Research has found that some formats of gambling are more closely linked to problem gambling than others. Conflicting evidence,
Alissa Mazar +3 more
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Mindfulness as a treatment for gambling disorder: current directions and issues [PDF]
, 2016 Mindfulness is a form of meditation that derives from Buddhist practice and is one of the fastest growing areas of psychological research. Studies investigating the role of mindfulness in the treatment of behavioural addictions have, to date, primarily ...
Van Gordon, W, Shonin, E, Griffiths, MD
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