The National Centre for Social Research has published a mostly positive review of Great Britain’s ban on credit card for gambling. Great Britain was the first country to pass a credit card ban when it introduced the regulation in April 2020. The Gambling Commission’s Executive Director of Research and Policy commented: “We are pleased that…
Researchers highlighted the lack of robust methodologies, a lack of consistent terminology for gambling outcomes, and a lack of studies that compared problem gamblers and non-problem gamblers, when studying the literature around the effects of near-wins on the brain. The study carried out at the University of Porto, Neurophysiological Correlates of Near-Wins in Gambling: A…
New research into the use of loot boxes on the popular Steam platform has shed new light on their legality and gambling regulators’ failure to prosecute supposedly illegal operators. The paper from video gaming law specialist Leon Xiao of the Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen, concludes that paid loot boxes with random…
A group of experts concluded that there is a pressing need to conduct joint screening at all points of interaction around harmful gambling and neurodiversity, during a webinar hosted by the Gambling Lived Experience Network (GLEN). International studies have found that in groups of individuals screening positive for gambling disorder, a quarter or more also…
A new study from the University of Barcelona in partnership with Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University reveals a mixed picture on the influence of gambling advertising on patients with gambling disorder. On the one hand, a statistically significant association was found between higher gambling advertising impact and higher scores on gambling severity. On…
The University of California San Diego Rady School of Management has released one of the most comprehensive studies into the positive and negative impacts of online gambling legalisation since PASPA was repealed.
New research from GambleAware in the UK suggests that over two-thirds of people believe there is too much gambling advertising and that more regulations are needed to control it. Sixty-seven percent of respondents to the survey by Ipsos said there is too much gambling advertising, with 72 percent supporting more regulations around television advertising and…
This paper explores how diverse forms of sports wagering are related to engagement in and symptoms of addiction to a variety of behaviours and substances. What are the associations between various forms of sports betting frequency (ie. traditional fantasy sports play, daily fantasy sports play, traditional sports betting, and e-sports betting) and frequency of various…
Recent US Supreme Court rulings, increased promotion of fantasy and daily fantasy sports, and the rise of e-sports have all fuelled new avenues for US individuals to gamble on sports. Even so, research in this domain has lagged in the US. To address this lag, this research examina four categories of sports-wagering behaviours: (1) general…
This research sought to test links between trait impulsivity, a known risk factor for addictive behaviours generally and problem gambling specifically, and specific forms of sports gambling. Key findings: There was consistent evidence that impulsivity is related to all aspects of sports gambling, from past year involvement generally, to depth and breadth of engagement, to…