New Horizons 2019!
CGR are looking forward to this year’s New Horizons in Responsible Gambling conference in Vancouver, and we’re presenting a lot of new data… Gabriel Brooks will be speaking in a session on New Investigators on ‘The gamblification of video games: An overview of ‘Loot Boxes’ and their links with disordered gambling’. Dr Mariya Cherkasova (UBC […]
INTERVIEW WealthSimple
Luke is interviewed by the online finance magazine WealthSimple in a piece called ‘Why Our Brains Like Gambling’
NEW PAPER: Interoception and Heart Rate Variability in Gambling Disorder
Congrats to Dawn Kennedy, who has led on this first CGR publication on people with gambling problems recruited and tested in Vancouver (n = 50, half have slot machines as their problematic form). Please take a look if you’re interested in the role of physiological arousal and excitement in gambling. Rather than measuring arousal (as […]
NEW PAPER: Testosterone fluctuations and slot machine gambling
Congratulations to Mario Ferrari for his first CGR paper, based on his MA thesis, just published in the APA journal ‘Psychology of Addictive Behaviors’, on testosterone fluctuations and slot machine gambling: evidence for a ‘winner-loser’ effect? We were interested in the classic finding that outcomes of social contests affect testosterone levels (i.e. the winners show […]
GREO Research Snapshot on our alcohol study
Gambling Research Exchange Ontario have featured our recent paper (Juliette Tobias-Webb et al, in Journal of Gambling Studies) looking at alcohol consumption and slot machine gambling in their ‘Research Snapshot‘ series.