The case for using personally relevant and emotionally stimulating gambling messages as a gambling harm-minimisation strategy

Harris, Andrew, Parke, Adrian and Griffiths, Mark (2018) The case for using personally relevant and emotionally stimulating gambling messages as a gambling harm-minimisation strategy. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 16 (2). pp. 266-275. ISSN 1557-1874

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Abstract

Emotions typically exert powerful, enduring, and often predictable influences over decision-making. However, emotion-based decision-making is seen as a mediator of impulsive and reckless gambling behaviour, where emotion may be seen as the antithesis of controlled and rational decision-making, a proposition supported by recent neuroimaging evidence. The present paper argues that the same emotional mechanisms can be used to influence a gambler to cease gambling, by focusing their emotional decision-making on positive external and personally relevant factors, such as familial impact or longer term financial factors. Emotionally stimulating messages may also have the advantage of capturing attention above and beyond traditionally responsible gambling messaging. This is important given the highly emotionally aroused states often experienced by both gamblers and problem gamblers, where attentional activation thresholds for external stimuli such as messages may be increased.

Keywords:Decision-making, Harm-minimisation, Responsible gambling
Subjects:C Biological Sciences > C800 Psychology
C Biological Sciences > C840 Clinical Psychology
Divisions:College of Social Science > School of Psychology
ID Code:24082
Deposited On:09 Sep 2016 13:55

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