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Past Research

Research that has previously been conducted by Dr. David Hodgins and his staff and students

OPTIMA

Optimizing patient centered care: A pragmatic randomized control trial comparing models of care In the Management of prescription opioid misuse. A CRISM Project.

LLLP

The LeisureLifestyleand Lifecycle Project (LLLP) is a five-year prospective longitudinal study designed to collect data on the factors influencing change in gambling and problem gambling behavior over time. Report for AGRI.

BSGT

Brief Self-Directed Gambling Treatment (BSGT) was developed in recognition of the fact that only a small proportion of individuals who are suffering problems with gambling seek formal, face-to-face treatment.

Cognitive Distortions

This study investigated how common gambling cognitive distortions are related to gambling behaviour. Cognitive distortions include things like: notions of having skill or personal control over the outcome of gambling, superstitions involving luck, and selective memory biases, 

  1. PhD Dissertation

    Addiction Substitution and Concurrent Recovery in Gambling Disorder: Evidence from Multiple Studies

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  1. Master's Thesis

    The Evaluation of an Internet-based Self-Directed Motivational Enhancement Intervention for Problem and Pathological Gamblers

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    The Technical Hypothesis of Motivational Interviewing: An Examination of Change Language in Traditional and Computer-based MI for Disordered Gamblers

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Cognitive mechanisms in gambling: The temporal relationship between cognitive distortions and gambling involvement

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Chasing the loss: Factors that predict within- and between-session chasing in gamblers

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Development of a video game addiction assessment for adults using the construct validation method

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Longitudinal Analysis and Modeling of Video Game Play and Addiction Behaviours

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  1. Master's Thesis

    The Relationship between Lack of Control and Illusory Pattern Perception among At-Risk Gamblers and At-Risk Cannabis Users

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Recovery from Cannabis Use Disorders: Abstinence versus Moderation and Treatment-Assisted Recovery versus Natural Recovery

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  1. PhD Dissertation

    Problem gambling risk factors in internet and non-internet gamblers

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Self-efficacy and problem gambling: establishing construct validity


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  2. PhD Dissertation

    The efficacy of individual community reinforcement and family training (craft) with concerned significant others of problem gamblers

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Public stigma of disordered gamblers: social distance, dangerousness, controllability, and familiarity

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Problem gambling stigma: stereotypes, labels, self-stigma, and treatment-seeking

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Rates of discounting and errors of expected value

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Affect-regulation expectancies among gamblers

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Construction of the gambling cognitions inventory

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    The Structure of Impulsivity in Pathological Gambling

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  1. PhD Dissertation

    The association between social anxiety and social functioning in first episode psychosis

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Psychophysiological arousal in problem and non-problem video lottery gamblers

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  2. PhD Dissertation

    Effects of a single session motivational intervention on problem gambling behaviour

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  1. Master's Thesis

    Minimal treatment for concerned significant others of problem gamblers

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Research interests include clinical psychology with a focus on adult psychopathology, and patterns of comorbidity associated with addictive disorders.

Attachment, Emotion Dysregulation, and Video Game Play: Testing the Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation in Gaming Disorder

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