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!
NEW PROJECT: Emotional signals during slot machine gambling
We are recruiting students to participate in a 90-minute in-person study for 2 HSP credit. Check out the study link below for more details! https://ubc-psych.sona-systems.com/default.aspx?p_return_experiment_id=2677
Lucas’ paper published at PAB and featured on RGC
Lucas’ paper on near-miss effects is published at the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and has been featured in Newscan by the Responsible Gambling Council. Palmer L, Ferrari MA, Clark L. (2024). The near-miss effect in online slot machine gambling: A series of conceptual replications. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. doi:10.1037/adb0000999.
Hin’s paper featured in GREO Research Snapshot
Gambling Research Exchange Ontario has covered Hin’s article on the impact of lottery rollover effect on different SES neighbourhoods: https://www.greo.ca/Modules/EvidenceCentre/Details/an-examination-of-socioeconomic-status-and-the-lottery-rollover-effect-in-toronto Paper: Fu, H. N., Li, A., Otto, A. R., & Clark, L. (2024). Socioeconomic correlates of the lottery rollover effect in Toronto, Canada. Addiction Research & Theory. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2024.2305429
Hin at PsychFest
Hin Fu will be presenting his MA thesis project on the concentration effect of online gambling at PsyFest this Friday.
Welcome Buyang!
A warm welcome to Buyang Daffa for joining CGR this summer! Buyang will be working under the Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (WLIURA).
Congrats to Paul on NSERC award!
Congrats to Paul on receiving the NSERC USRA! Paul will be continuing his research on sports betting over the summer terms.
NEW PAPER: Post-reinforcement pauses and immersion
Exciting new paper from Spencer Murch’s PhD work! This paper looked at the effect of immersion on post-reinforcement pauses on slot machine gambling, across different reinforcement outcomes including genuine wins, losses disguised as wins, and bonus spins. This paper is available through open access. Murch, W. S., Ferrari, M. A., & Clark, L. (2024). Post-reinforcement […]