You enter your quarter into the slot machine and hit the button. Two lemons and a cherry appear in front of you—close to a win, but not quite. For nearly 70 years, researchers believed near misses like these would encourage ...
Sep 25, 2019
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New findings released Sept. 12 from a groundbreaking gambling study by a University of Massachusetts Amherst research team show that out-of-state casino gambling among Massachusetts residents decreased significantly after ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Academics are calling for a radical overhaul of the UK gambling laws including a tax on the industry to prevent gambling harms and support those with gambling problems, in a paper published today.
May 9, 2019
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An increasingly popular feature of modern video games is attracting gamers who share the beliefs and behaviours of problem gamblers, new UBC research has found.
May 1, 2019
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A survey led by a University of Warwick psychology researcher of gambling advertising research since 2014 shows a shows rapid increases in amount and potential influence.
Mar 11, 2019
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Researchers at the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick's School of Social Work have found a link between frequently trading cryptocurrency—a digital and virtual currency—and problem gambling.
Mar 8, 2019
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"Ubiquitous" smartphone gambling and lack of regulation presents a potential danger to people with addiction problems.
Feb 22, 2019
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The current focus on individual 'problem gamblers' fails to take into account the full health and social cost of gambling because it overlooks the wider impact on families, friends and communities, according to new work published ...
Feb 4, 2019
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A major new study has provided the first evidence of a potentially dangerous link between problem gambling and video game loot boxes.
Nov 22, 2018
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Adolescents with a particular variant of an opioid receptor gene have less response in a part of prefrontal cortex that evaluates rewards, compared to those with the other version of the gene, say researchers at Georgetown ...
Nov 5, 2018
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