Philip Newall

1 week ago | tandfonline.com | Christopher Byrne |Philip Newall |Ty Hayes |Leonardo Weiss-Cohen

ABSTRACTPrevious research has indicated that several gambling product features, such as slot games’ fast potential speed of play, are potentially harmful ‘structural characteristics’. However, we know of little empirical research exploring whether the provision of multiple themes for slot games could be considered another relevant structural characteristic. We therefore explored this game feature in a simulated online experiment (N = 990).

Oct 20, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ty Hayes |Lukasz Walasek |Matthew Browne |Philip Newall

AbstractThe mistaken belief that personal control can affect the outcomes of random events is seen as a core part of disordered gamblers’ irrational beliefs via the ‘illusion of control’. The present study tests the extent of action-based manifestation of the illusion of control in a dice-rolling game, which provides a novel controlled test of a claim first made by Henslin that craps gamblers tend to shake their dice harder when aiming for higher numbers.

Apr 26, 2024 | addiction-ssa.org | Philip Newall

Dr Philip Newall writes about the public health impact of gambling, and reflects on the promise of the government’s 2023 gambling White Paper. On 27 April 2023, the UK Government published its White Paper on gambling – “High stakes: gambling reform for the digital age”. This long-awaited document was the government’s response to the 16,000 pieces of evidence submitted in response to its December 2020 call for evidence.