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In the news: Luke interviewed by Vancouver Sun on sports betting

Luke is featured in this article in today’s Vancouver Sun on the mounting backlash across Canada on gambling advertisements during televised sports

CGR at the UNLV International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking

We have an exciting week ahead with a number of CGR folk presenting at the largest conference in the gambling field, the International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, in Las Vegas.  Luke is presenting Xiaolei’s PhD data on Day 1: “Pareto effects in the eCasino: differences across online products and links with self-exclusion” Raymond […]

CGR theory paper covered in GREO Research Snapshot

Gambling Research Exchange Ontario has covered Luke’s review article on the mechanism behind reward uncertainty in behavioural addiction: https://www.greo.ca/Modules/EvidenceCentre/Details/how-do-reward-mechanisms-affect-behavioural-addictions Paper: Clark, L., & Zack, M. (2023). Engineered highs: Reward variability and frequency as potential prerequisites of behavioural addiction. Addictive Behaviors, 140, 107626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107626

Welcome to Shayden Schofield-Lewis!

With the start of the summer term, Shayden will be joining us as a graduate-level directed studies student! This seminar-based course will focus on the cognitive and behavioural neuroscience of sports betting. Welcome Shayden!

Raymond at PsycFest

Raymond Wu will be presenting his project on justifications in disordered gambling at PsycFest. In this annual event, second-year MA and new Ph.D. students present their research projects to the UBC psychology community.

Paul, Velika, and Claudia presenting at PURC

Paul and Velika presented their Psychology Honour’s projects and Claudia presented her Directed Studies project at the Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC) over the weekend. Their posters can be accessed through the links below Paul Weston ‘Legalizing Sports Betting Changed Canadian Newspapers: Print Media Trends Before and After Legalization‘ Velika Kristianto ‘Tip or Bet?: Cheering […]

Congrats to Ke Zhang for successful PhD Final Defense!!

Huge congrats to Ke who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on Friday!! Her thesis is titled ‘Chasing in Online Gambling and its Practical Application in Gambling Intervention’ and we are very grateful to Ke’s committee members, Profs Jiaying Zhao and Jason Rights, as well as her University and External Examiners. The thesis can be accessed […]

PURC keynote talk

It’s an honour to give the faculty keynote at the annual Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC) at UBC. Luke will be speaking about our research on loot boxes, titled “The gamblers of the future? Understanding the links between loot boxes and gambling”

JOURNAL CLUB: Habit-forming design in digital technologies

For our journal club this week, we’re looking at a new theory paper by Maeva Flayelle and colleagues, in Nature Reviews Psychology, thinking about structural features of digital technologies (social media, sports betting, video games) in terms of the model-based / model-free framework for compulsive over-use. Flayelle M, Brevers D, King DL, Maurage P, Perales […]

Luke and Raymond featured in Global News and CTV News articles

Following the New Horizons conference, Luke and Raymond are featured in Global News and CTV news articles about the migration effect from loot boxes to gambling and the characteristics of gambling stream viewers.