Psychology Journals 1 issues, 13 articles
.Reasons for playing slot machines: –“The bet is within my budget” –Prefer 25¢ denomination –Do not care if the slot machine is themed –Over half (57.4%) do not play progressives –Play less often than other clusters, but tend to have higher income and spend more overall 16 15th Int'l Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking, 2013.
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A peer-reviewed publication that contains original general interest and discipline specific articles related to the scientific study of gambling.
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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...
Read preview OverviewIntegrative 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 OverviewExample Of A Swot Analysis
An 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 The present experiment was designed to determine if and how experience might alter individuals' gambling when playing video poker. Twelve self-identified 'experienced' poker players and 12 self-identified 'novices' were recruited to play video poker...
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