Gambling Lab
At the heart of the research conducted in this lab is a desire to understand the causes of gambling addiction and means to facilitate responsible gambling. Topics of interest include craving, erroneous cognition/non-rational thought, responsible gambling (e.g., assessment of tools that facilitate limit setting and adherence), stress and coping responses, and barriers to behavioural change. This research takes place in the 杏吧原创 University Gambling Laboratory (CUGL), which is complete with slot machines, a black jack table, and a virtual reality casino.
Below, you will find a video my lab helped produce for Ontario Lottery and Gaming. The 鈥淪lot Machine: What Every Player Needs to Know鈥 educational video is now a widely used animation that addresses erroneous cognitions relating to sampling with replacement and provides strategies for helping slot players to stay within their monetary limits.
More recently, we have examined factors that hinder as well as facilitate behavioural change (self-help, professional care). Central to this line of research is nostalgic revere for the pre-addicted self. We have found (Kim & Wohl, 2015) that nostalgia (measured or manipulated) heightens readiness to change. We are in the midst of studying why nostalgia motivates change as well as the limits and boundaries of this effect.
For information about knowledge translation and exchange () activities related to the gambling research produced by CUGL, we invite you to look at the Gambling Research and Training () Hub page.
Selected (Recent) Publications
Hollingshead, S.J., Amar, M., Santesso, D., & Wohl, M.J.A. (2019). . Addiction Research & Theory, 27, 507-514. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2018.1555818
Wohl, M.J.A., Tabri, N., & Zelenski, J.M. (2019). . International Gambling Studies, 19, 369-376. doi: 10.1080/14459795.2019.1672769
Salmon, M., Kim, H.S., & Wohl, M.J.A. (2018).. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37, 405-430. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2018.37.6.405
Wohl, M.J.A. (2018). International Gambling Studies, 8, 495-511. doi 10.1080-14459795.2018.1480649
Wohl, M.J.A., Kim, H.S., Salmon, M., Santesso, D., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 83-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.011
Kim, H.S., Hollingshead, S.J., & Wohl, M.J.A. (2017). Journal of Gambling Studies, 33, 525-538. doi: 100.1007/s10899-016-9626-6
Wohl, M. J. A., Salmon, M., Hollingshead, S. J., & Kim, H. S. (2017). Journal of Gambling Issues, 35, 1-23. doi: 10.4309/jgi.2017.35.4
Wood, R. T. A., Wohl, M. J. A., Tabri, N., & Philander, K. (2017). Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 227. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00227
Tabri, N., Wohl, M. J. A., Eddy, K. T., & Thomas, J. J. (2017). . International Gambling Studies, 17, 30-50. doi:10.1080/14459795.2016.1252414
Kim, H. S., & Wohl, M. J. A. (2015). Social Psychology and Personality Psychology Science, 6, 229-237. doi:10.1177/1948550614549482