Welcome Jolie and Ethan!
We’re happy to welcome our new undergrads RA Jolie Lin and Ethan Ngu on joining CGR! Jolie is joining as a voluntary RA and will work with Claudia on the Genshin Impact project. Ethan is joining as a COGS 402 student and will work with Raymond on a replication study looking at emotional state during […]
NEW PRE-PRINT: Lucas’ longitudinal loot box study
A new manuscript is available from Lucas Palmer’s research investigating the longitudinal relationship between loot box spending in video games and real-money gambling behavior. This study replicates earlier research from our lab, exploring the migration from video game loot boxes to conventional gambling among young adults in British Columbia, Canada. You can access the pre-print […]
Welcome to our new Honours students Zaina Alkurdi and Clara Saad!
A warm welcome to our incoming Honours students this year Zaina and Clara! Zaina will work with Luke on an online slot machine project, and Clara will work with Raymond on a replication study looking at emotional states during slot machine plays.
Congrats to Mario Ferrari for his successful PhD Final Defense!!
Huge congrats to Mario who successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Friday!! His dissertation is titled ‘Identification and measurement of habit formation during slot machine gambling’, available here. We are very grateful to Mario’s committee members, Profs Joelle LeMoult, Stan Floresco, and Heather O’Brien!
Congratulations to Hin on his successful MA thesis defense!
Huge congrats to Hin Fu on successfully defending his MA thesis! Hin’s thesis is titled ‘Concentrated behaviour in online gambling: an exploratory data analysis’, available here. Thank you to Prof Lawrence Ward and Friedrich Götz for serving on Hin’s examining committee!
PSYC 240 Portal Opens!
The Centre for Gambling Research is participating in the PSYC 240 program and the application portal has just opened! This year, we are channelling all RA enquiries through the portal, including PSYC 240, volunteer RA, Directed Studies, and COGS 402. For PSYC240 specifically, we’re approaching it as a research access program, and we’re only considering […]
Luke on The Globe and Mail
Luke was recently interviewed by The Globe and Mail on the wide reach of gambling ads during live sporting events, as well as the long-lasting effect of gambling harms. See the link here for the full article.
Welcome Kyle!
We’re happy to welcome Kyle Turner on joining CGR! He’ll be working as a lab assistant under the co-supervision of Dr. Luke Clark and Dr. Catharine Winstanley on the psychophysics projects.
Luke and Charlotte at CAGR
Luke and Charlotte attended the Current Advances in Gambling Research conference in Amsterdam last week. Charlotte gave a theoretical poster presentation titled “Investigating interoception and emotional attribution of arousal in gambling.”
CGR Lab Socials
CGR lab outing at Cates Park in North Vancouver!