UBC-DIBS Behavioural Insights Seminar
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1-2pm PT
*Note: This is a special Wednesday UBC-DIBS Seminar, instead of our normal Friday schedule!*
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What Can Behavioural Scientists Learn from
Real-World Gambling Behaviour?
Luke Clark
University of British Columbia
Gambling is a widespread example of recreational risk-taking with the potential for excessive consumption. In BC, over 70% of the adult population report some gambling engagement, and annual provincial income from gambling exceeds $1.6 billion. Many classic effects in judgment & decision making and behavioural economics are inspired by how gamblers are supposed to behave (e.g. loss aversion, the ‘house money’ effect, the gambler’s fallacy) yet surprisingly, there is limited research on cognitive biases in real-world gambling. This talk will focus on three lines of enquiry in our recent work: i) how do the design features of modern gambling products (slot machines, sports betting) increase harmful engagement, ii) how does online gambling further shape this risk, and iii) how can we use behavioural insights to innovate new gambling harm reduction tools?
The UBC-DIBS Behavioural Insights Seminar series features researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to “nudge for good”. Recordings of past seminars are available on the BI wiki here. To subscribe or unsubscribe, email dibs@sauder.ubc.ca.