Watch and yearn? Effects of watching gambling livestreams on cravings
Raymond Wu, Brett Abarbanel, Luke Clark · 2024
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Description
Wu, Abarbanel, and Clark ask if watching gambling live streams stirs craving to gamble in twenty twenty-four. Streams of slots and bets are now a hit online and are full of cues that may tempt viewers. Some viewers say they watch to calm their own urges. The team ran two online studies with people who gamble.
Viewers were younger, more often men, and had worse gambling problems than non viewers. They also felt stronger cravings in daily life. The urge to watch in order to calm craving rose with problem severity. So did the craving felt while watching. The authors warn that a coping tool may in fact feed the urge it aims to curb.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Raymond Wu, Brett Abarbanel, Luke Clark |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |