New Insights: Ground-breaking RG Research
Research arms industry leaders with the facts and information they need to make decisions that drive change in responsible gambling. In this session, speakers will discuss breakthrough research that invites us to look at RG in a completely different light. From research that explores the idea that, for some, the appeal of slots may be a kind of ‘maladaptive mindfulness’; to an investigation of an innovative intervention that recognizes a connection between homelessness and PG which has, up until now, been overlooked; to research that shows that enforced cash-outs may be doing more harm than good. Join us as we examine research that challenges our assumptions and invites us to look at RG through a new lens.
Wednesday, April 15th, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Room TBA
Speakers:
Mike Dixon
Mike J. Dixon is a full professor of psychology at the University of Waterloo. He has twice served as the chair of the Department of Psychology. In terms of his gambling research he is best known for his work on Losses Disguised as Wins in Multiline slots play, and the frustrating but motivating effects of near-misses in slots and scratch-cards.He has been continuously funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council since 1997 and has also received grants from the Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada, the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, and the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre, and the Manitoba Gambling Research Council.
Flora Matheson
Dr. Flora Matheson is a research scientist at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital and Associate Professor in Public Health and Criminology, University of Toronto. She works with the community to develop/evaluate solutions to eliminate social and health inequities.
Ke Zhang
Ke Zhang is currently a PhD student in the Centre for Gambling Research at the University of British Columbia. She studies gambling behaviour under the framework of behavioural economics, including subjective value evaluation. Her current research focuses on how prior outcomes affect subsequent gambling behaviour across gamblers with various level of gambling severity.