UBC News – Centre for Gambling Research opens 2014
Luke Clark will head the new Centre for Gambling Research at UBC. Probing the psychology of gambling, helping problem gamblers and enhancing gaming policy are key goals for the new Centre for Gambling Research at UBC. more
Vancouver Sun – Gambling research centre opens at UBC (with video)
Reducing the harm associated with problem gambling is one of the research areas the new Centre for Gambling Research at the University of B.C. will focus on, according to its director. Luke Clark said Wednesday that the centre is one of a handful of gambling research centres in the world with a “casino lab.” Clark […]
A new phase for gambling research in British Columbia
The Centre for Gambling Research at UBC officially opened on November 12, 2014. Luke Clark, the Centre’s director, in the casino lab. Photo: Martin Dee
The Centre for Gambling Research at UBC officially opens
(November 12, 2014) Probing the psychology of gambling, helping problem gamblers and enhancing gaming policy are key goals for the new Centre for Gambling Research at UBC, which opens today. The Centre – one of only a handful of such research hubs globally – is headed by leading gambling psychologist Luke Clark who joined UBC […]
Kung Fu Mahjong
The second movie we watched in the CGR film series was a Cantonese comedy, Kung Fu Mahjong. When I was asked to choose a gambling movie, several Mahjong movies came to my mind, largely due to the influence that the game has in the culture I grew up in. I settled for Kung Fu Mahjong […]
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The scientific study of the psychology and the neuroscience of gambling games and problem gamblers. Photo: Martin Dee