Conference Poster Sessions feature multiple presenters in an engaging visual medium. Poster Sessions will take place during the morning and afternoon networking breaks.
The Internet Compliance Assessment Program (iCAP) is the National Council on Problem Gambling’s accreditation for responsible gambling in online environments. Based on the Internet Responsible Gambling Standards (IRGS), iCAP sets a high benchmark for player protection and supports organizations in leading responsibly within the evolving online gambling landscape. This poster highlights state regulatory performance and offers practical strategies to enhance responsible gambling policies, staff training, and player resources to promote safer online gambling.
This poster session will outline and describe the various data sources used in the initial grant application, as well as the data collected throughout the grant period. In addition, we will incorporate a third-party dataset from the University of Nebraska’s Rural Drug Addiction Research (RDAR) Center to explore how these data sets intersect with the broader culture of college gambling. We will explain how the data was collected, what the findings suggest, and what implications they hold for the future study of gambling at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
We study overoptimism about financial returns and self-control problems among high-volume sports bettors. To do this, we conducted a two-month field experiment in which we linked survey data to observational betting account data for study participants. We find widespread overoptimism about financial returns. The average study participant predicts that they will break even, but in fact loses 7.5 cents for every dollar wagered. We also find evidence of self-control problems, though these are smaller than overoptimism. We embed these results in an economic model of consumer protection and discuss implications for several kinds of regulations, including taxes and mandates for the inclusion of responsible gambling features on betting platforms. A pre-print is available at https://mattbrownecon.github.io/
This poster presentation explores the specific risk for problems in gambling and financial trading that stem from interpersonal contexts, based on findings from an online survey conducted via Amazon’s MTurk (N = 581). Results show that fear of missing out (FOMO)—defined as a pervasive concern about missing rewarding experiences others might be having, along with anti-mattering (i.e., sense of being invisible to others), and competitiveness significantly influences problematic behaviors in gambling and financial trading. Furthermore, based on profiles of the risk factors, four distinct latent groups were identified, each exhibiting notable differences in problem gambling and financial trading behaviors.
A quick update on what’s happening in the world of research, specifically looking at understanding how gambling products create the risk of gambling-related harm. Led by The Game Safety Institute, this quick learning session will summarise what’s new in terms of research in this field.
