Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis.
This manuscript reviews the extant literature on key issues related to mobile gambling and considers whether the potential risks of harm emerging from this platform are driven by pre-existing comorbidities or by psychological processes unique to mobile gambling. We propose an account based on associ...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 108; no. 3; pp. 608 - 626 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2017
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