gambling

Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at more than double the rate...

Is the lockdown leading us to drink more alcohol or spend more time gambling online or watching pornography? Researchers today launch a survey aimed...

Research shows how financial markets should have predicted Brexit hours before they eventually did, and that betting markets beat currency markets to...

Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry) discusses what makes some people want to base jump off a cliff, while others don’t even enjoy a rollercoaster...

Anthony Pickles (Division of Social Anthropology) discusses why gambling is a relatively modern invention.

New research reveals that brain damage affecting the insula – an area with a key role in emotions – disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling...

Homeless people are ten times more likely to be problem gamblers than the UK population as a whole, researchers at Cambridge have found.

Gambling is a thriving form of entertainment in the UK, but may also become a form of addiction for some individuals. Just why do people gamble when...