JOURNAL CLUB: chasing behaviour in online horse-race gambling
Ke Zhang is presented a second Journal Club for December, on an interesting data science paper using survival models to look at days between sessions as measure of chasing in Finnish online horse-racing gamblers. On average, winners return 27% faster than losers. Kainulainen, T. Does Losing on a Previous Betting Day Predict How Long it […]
JOURNAL CLUB (December 2020) on cryptocurrency gambling
Gabe Brooks is presenting our CGR journal club this week on a new paper from University of York (UK) on cryptocurrency gambling Scholten, Zendle & Walker (2020) nside the decentralised casino: A longitudinal study of actual cryptocurrency gambling transactions. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240693
NEW PAPER with U Pitt colleagues on behavioural sensitivity to social rank
Congrats to Jade Adalbert, whose Directed Studies project in the lab is part of a joint publication with our colleagues in Pittsburgh Psychiatry, published this week in PlosOne. This paper presents a new behavioural task to assess responses to social defeat and victory in a competitive game that involves a social hierarchy (effectively, a league […]
NEW PROJECT: Do you trade in the financial markets?
In an ongoing study led by CGR Research Assistant Osa Hawthorne, we’re looking for people who engage in private financial trading to take part in a short (10 min) survey https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cMDR7mFwqwfHnH7
Spencer is graduating!
Huge congratulations to Spencer Murch, the first CGR grad student to graduate with PhD! We’re a little sad for Spencer that the ceremony this year is being held online but we’re very proud of him reaching this important milestone.
Luke speaking in Psychology Student Association ‘Prof talks’ series
Luke is speaking to the Department of Psychology PSA this evening as part of their Prof Talks series, talking about research opportunities, careers in academic, and studying during the pandemic.
Luke speaking at ISAM / CSAM addictions conference
Luke is speaking in a virtual symposium on behavioural addictions at the joint annual meeting of the International Society for Addiction Medicine (ISAM) and the Canadian Society for Addiction Medicine (CSAM), which was due to be hosted in Victoria BC this week. Title: ‘Interacting effects of personal vulnerabilities and product features in gambling addiction’.
NEW PAPER: using machine learning to predict gambling problems on the BC PlayNow platform
Congratulations to Stephanie Finkenwirth and Kent Macdonald, who have lead this data science project using data from the BCLC’s PlayNow platform. Published in International Gambling Studies, we apply machine learning to 1 year of online gambling transactions from the eCasino (online slot machines and table games) to predict self-exclusion status as a marker of gambling […]
Spencer talking at UK Safer Gambling Forum
Spencer is giving an online talk this week in the UK Safer Gambling Forum eGaming workshop, on “What is Slot Machine Immersion: How does it affect our experiences and behaviours?” https://www.safergamblingforum.com/agenda/session/436150
Luke speaking at Society for Psychophysiology Research conference
Luke is speaking this week at the virtual SPR conference that was due to be hosted in Vancouver. He will be chairing and speaking in the session ‘Risky Business’ on Wed 7 Oct, on ‘How slot machine design features harness brain systems for risk and reward’. Looking forward to the other talks by Ross Otto […]