Centre for Gambling Research at UBC

10/01/2024

Do you gamble? Are you interested in participating in research? If so, please contact us! See poster for more details.

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https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3sKUQGU1pY5cPTo

02/27/2021

Congratulations to Spencer Murch, the first CGR grad student to graduate with a PhD! We are excited to see Spencer join Concordia University as a post-doctoral research fellow, working with Drs. Sylvia Kairouz and Martin French.

Read our Jan 2021 newsletter for more news:

In a collaborative project with Prof Michael Wohl and Silas Xuereb (Carleton) and Prof Andrew Kim (Ryerson), we examined how gamblers in the US have responded to the casino closures in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. While gamblers typically endorsed a decrease in online gambling, 15% of o...

12/10/2019

When people think of being "in the zone", they imagine a state of calm focus and high performance. For slot machine gamblers, the zone offers a chance to happily lose track of time. But it also carries a steep cost.

Our new paper, first-authored by our graduate student Spencer Murch with others, asks: What is this state?

Read up more on our twitter thread: https://twitter.com/CGR_UBC/status/1198857819262341121

Read our paper in the "Addiction" Journal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31746072

See our pre-registration:https://aspredicted.org/k4ty9.pdf

Open data: https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP2/GSOMLU

“When people think of being “in the zone,” they imagine a state of calm focus and high performance. For slot machine gamblers, the zone offers a chance to happily lose track of time. But it also carries a steep cost. Our new paper asks: What is this state? 1/15”

11/10/2019

Our latest study, first-authored by our postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Eve Limbrick-Oldfield, in collaboration with others, is the first to explore genetic vulnerabilities in gambling research.

We found biological siblings of people with a Gambling Disorder also show markers of increased impulsivity and risk-taking.

Biological siblings of people with gambling disorder also display markers of increased impulsivity and risk-taking, according to a new UBC psychology study. The findings, published today in Neurops…

09/27/2019

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09/16/2019

Ever wondered why our brains like ? And what is "gambler's fallacy" really?

Read on Dr. Luke Clark's interview with Wealthsimple to find out:

Humans are drawn to gambling, whether it's picking stocks or playing slots. Gambling expert Dr. Luke Clark explains how this is a feature, not a bug, in our wiring.