The Centre for Gambling Research at UBC within the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
The Centre for Gambling Research at UBC has been established to reduce the harm caused by problem gambling through the scientific study of the psychology and the neuroscience of gambling games and problem gamblers, ultimately improving evidence-based gambling policy.
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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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:
Centre for Gambling Research at UBC | Jan 2021 Newsletter 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
GamblingResearch@UBC on Twitter “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.
UBC study finds siblings of problem gamblers also impulsive, prone to 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:
Dumb Questions for Smart People: Why Our Brains Like Gambling 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.
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