The APA based its decision on numerous recent studies in psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrating that gambling and drug addiction are far more similar than previously realized. The psychology of betting is undoubtedly a complex subject but on the surface, there is a simple question; if gamblers, on average, lose money, why do they still find it desirable to gamble? In this article, we will explore the lack of understanding in terms of expected value as well as why mathematical expectation and utility (or desirability. Gambling Task: Understanding the Role of Serotonin and Dopamine in Pathological Gambling” that not only demonstrates that laboratory rats can play the odds, but also provides evidence that the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin play a role in gambling behavior (Zeeb, Robbins, Winstanley, 2009).

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Construct a 95 % confidence interval. The Journal of Gambling Issues (JGI) is the world's first and longest-running online, academic journal dedicated to understanding problem gambling. Due to the increasing convergence of gambling and gaming, the JGI expanded its scope in 2019 to include problem video gaming and technology use.

JGI is an open-access, indexed journal with a double blind peer review process that provides a scientific forum for developments in gambling-related research, policy issues, and treatments. JGI is now part of the Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index. We are also indexed in Scopus, Crossref, Elselvier Series, Ebsco, Scimago and PsycInfo, among others.

Publishing Schedule and Fees: Issues are published triannually, although manuscripts are made publicly available as soon as they have been accepted/typeset on the JGI Online First platform. JGI does not charge any review or publication fees and is fully open access.

The JGI is published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and funded by Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

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Special Issue (46): Gambling, Gaming, & Technology Use

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer

Why Behavior Analysts Should Study Gambling Behavior

The field of behavior analysis has been applied to solve many problems facing our society. Differential allocation of behavioral research to certain applied problems has resulted in positive changes in those areas while other areas remain underserved..

Read preview OverviewThe Gambling Functional Assessment (GFA): An Assessment Device for Identification of the Maintaining Variables of Pathological Gambling

The present paper describes the rationale and presents an assessment device for the identification of functional control of pathological gambling behavior. It is suggested in this paper that only through identification of function and eventual treatment..

Read preview OverviewTreatment of Compulsive Gambling

A program for treatment of compulsive gambling is presented. The participant in the study was a 27-year old teacher. Before the treatment started he spent about $3.700 a month and his debt because of gambling was 60 000 dollars. The procedure included..

Read preview OverviewUsing WinPoker 6.0 to Study Gambling Behavior

Previous technical efforts have described how custom computer programs for the study of gambling behavior may be created to allow for the manipulation of variables not readily available in natural gambling contexts, however many people may lack the..

Read preview OverviewW. Scott Wood: 1940-2006

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This inaugural issue of the Analysis of Gambling Behavior begins on a sad note: Our friend and colleague Scott Wood passed away on November 23, 2006. An Arizona State PhD under Jack Michael's direction and a longtime faculty..

Read preview OverviewToward an Integrative Behavioral Model of Gambling

Although the activity of gambling and the research on gambling continues to grow every year, behavior analysts have contributed minimally to the published literature. Theories of gambling abound from social to neurological frameworks, yet empirical..

Read preview OverviewVerbal Relations and the Behavior Analysis of Gambling

Photographs of rats pressing levers and people pressing the 'spin' button on slot machines are commonly juxtaposed in textbook and media portrayals of behavior-analytic approaches to gambling. Such portrayals appear to explain the lure and persistence..

Read preview OverviewDelay Discounting and Problem Gambling

Weatherly and Dixon have provided a behavioural model of gambling that seeks to integrate findings from previous behavioural research and provide a testable framework for future behaviourally oriented gambling research. A strength of the model is that..

Read preview OverviewGetting There: Commentary on 'Toward an Integrative Behavioral Model of Gambling' by Weatherly and Dixon

Weatherly and Dixon have taken an important step by proposing a coherent behavior-analytic formulation of gambling to account for individual differences in the development of gambling problems. They rely on the cumulative and interactive effects of..

Read preview OverviewThe Alloplastic Nature of Pathological Gambling

Weatherly and Dixon address how changes in the environment impact a person's propensity to gamble, as well as problems individuals can develop when this behavior pattern becomes excessive. While research has grown exponentially on gambling in the past..

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Integrative Model or Fracturing Framework: Better We Hedge Our Bets

Weatherly and Dixon proposed a behavior analytic account of gambling. There were many excellent points made in the paper, and we were in agreement with many of them. Certainly, any conceptualization of gambling that ignores establishing operations..

Read preview OverviewAn Integrative, Not Necessarily Comprehensive, Behavioral Model of Gambling

The integrative behavioral model of gambling (Weatherly & Dixon, 2007) was forwarded as an initial attempt to provide a unified and coherent behavioral account for gambling behavior and problems. There were several reasons for making this attempt..

Read preview OverviewThe Role of 'Experience' When People Gamble on Three Different Video-Poker Games