Luke quoted in The Province: gambling, COVID-19 and calls to the BC gambling helpline
Quotes from Luke Clark in The Province article: the headline is a 20% drop in calls to the BC gambling telephone helpline since the start of the COVID pandemic. Although, as casinos have been fully closed for the duration of this time, and sports betting also substantially affected, an alternative perspective is that the fact […]
Welcome to our incoming undergraduates, Kaycee and Ben!
We are delighted to take on two students for projects this Fall term. Kaycee Realina is a Psychology Honors project student, who will be working with Mario on his habit project. Ben Sidloski returns to the lab to do a Directed Studies project in which he’ll be running some secondary analyses on Gabe’s loot box […]
NCPG Research Award!
In July 2020, the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in the US gave their Annual Research Award to Spencer’s paper in Addiction, titled ‘Zoned in or zoned out? Investigating immersion in slot machine gambling using mobile eye‐tracking’. Congratulations to Spencer and hats off to a substantial team of colleagues and collaborators without whom this […]
Watch Spencer’s USyd webinar on youtube
Spencer Murch from CGR, along with (UBC alumnus) Maggie Schluter (U Calgary) presented this week’s ‘Technology Risk and Gambling’ seminar hosted by the University of Sydney, on ‘immersion and dissociative experiences’. Lots of great discussion, and we are big fans of this webinar series. You can watch the episode at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIFR5iYthGU
NEW PAPER in Addiction: eye tracking and gambling immersion
Spencer’s paper using eye tracking during slot machine gambling, in order to better characterize immersive states, is published in the June issue of Addiction. This was a real team effort, involving several collaborators in the lab, with UBC Centre for Brain Health, and Miriam Spering’s lab in UBC Ophthalmology. Spencer did a great thread on […]
Welcome to incoming undergrads Ryan and Osa!
Working from home under the COVID-19 lockdown has made it harder than usual to engage undergraduates in our research program, but we are delighted to take on two further students for projects this summer, in addition to our newly arrived USRA, Andy Kim. Ryan Picardo is a COGS 402 student who will be conducting a […]
Congrats Andy Kim, awarded an NSERC USRA scholarship
We’re very happy to welcome Andy Kim to the Centre. Andy has been awarded a prestigious NSERC USRA summer scholarship. The arrangements for these awards have been rather complicated this year by the COVID-19 pandemic and campus closure, but for summer term at least, Andy will be working on some existing data looking at how […]
CGR reviews Uncut Gems
In the latest instalment of our Gambling in the Movies series, we got together remotely on 3o March during the COVID-19 shutdown to watch the recent Netflix moving Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler. Spencer Murch made sense of our ramblings here. For the other movies in this series, see Gambling in the Movies.
Gambling in the Movies #8: Uncut Gems
It’s been a couple of years since our interest was so piqued by a film that we wanted to review it for our Gambling in the Movies series. But this one was just too fascinating to pass up. The lab convened remotely during the COVID-19 shutdown to watch the film via Netflix Party and discuss […]
Luke featured in CBC article on gambling and COVID
Luke is featured in an article by CBC on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting lottery sales and gambling more broadly, in the Maritimes.