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Introduction Wagering on racing and sporting events in Australia has grown substantially in recent years, where the legal age for gambling is 18 years or older. Race-betting losses totaled $3.3 billion in 2016

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Nerilee Hing
,
Matthew Browne
,
Matthew Rockloff
,
Alex M. T. Russell
,
Catherine Tulloch
,
Lisa Lole
,
Hannah Thorne
, and
Philip Newall

( Hing et al., 2015 ; Lopez-Gonzalez, Estévez, & Griffiths, 2017 ; Meyer et al., 2011 ). While changes to a gambling product alter its structural characteristics, changes to a betting platform, such as on-track betting, a website or app, affect its

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Philip W.S. Newall
,
Lukasz Walasek
,
Rebecca Vázquez Kiesel
,
Elliot A. Ludvig
, and
Caroline Meyer

bet repeatedly ( Dowling, Smith, & Thomas, 2005 ), thereby potentially taking advantage of deficits in impulsiveness in disordered gambling ( Amlung, Vedelago, Acker, Balodis, & MacKillop, 2017 ; MacKillop et al., 2011 ). By comparison, there has been

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product where product design is important for gamblers’ welfare. For example, in the UK, legislative and taxation changes have contributed to the growth of the sports betting market since 2000 ( Forrest, 2008 ), and sports betting may now be the most

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Repairer Etuk
,
Tiange Xu
,
Brett Abarbanel
,
Marc N. Potenza
, and
Shane W. Kraus

Introduction Sports betting is a rapidly growing industry that obtained a worldwide market size of over 200 billion United States (US) dollars in 2019 ( Ibisworld, 2020 ). In total, there are over 30,000 sports-betting-related businesses globally

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Ana Estévez
,
Raquel Rodríguez
,
Noelia Díaz
,
Roser Granero
,
Gemma Mestre-Bach
,
Trevor Steward
,
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
,
Neus Aymamí
,
Mónica Gómez-Peña
,
Amparo del Pino-Gutiérrez
,
Marta Baño
,
Laura Moragas
,
Núria Mallorquí-Bagué
,
Hibai López-González
,
Paula Jauregui
,
Jaione Onaindia
,
Virginia Martín-Romera
,
José M. Menchón
, and
Susana Jiménez-Murcia

other individuals however, the wide range of betting and gaming activities offered through Internet-enabled devices can transform into a disorder with serious social and psychological consequences ( Deans, Thomas, Daube, & Derevensky, 2016 ). As opposed

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Nerilee Hing
,
Alex M. T. Russell
,
Catherine Tulloch
,
Lisa Lole
,
Matthew Rockloff
,
Matthew Browne
,
Hannah Thorne
, and
Philip Newall

Introduction In many countries, smartphone betting apps are now the predominant platform used for sports betting ( Hing, Russell, et al., 2021 , 2022 ; Winters & Derevensky, 2019 ). Within the context of continued increases in sports betting

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Dominic Sagoe
,
Rune Aune Mentzoni
,
Tony Leino
,
Helge Molde
,
Sondre Haga
,
Mikjel Fredericson Gjernes
,
Daniel Hanss
, and
Ståle Pallesen

control group, evidence is provided that consumption of a moderately intoxicating dose of alcohol increases the rate of double-up betting ( Ellery & Stewart, 2014 ). In another recent experimental study using video-lottery terminals, alcohol consumption

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collected, discovered that adverts simultaneously aimed to increase the perceived control a gambler has over their betting behaviour whilst also decreasing the perceived risk associated with the behaviour ( Lopez-Gonzalez, Estévez, & Griffiths, 2017 ). This

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Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Authors:
Sarah E. Nelson
,
Timothy C. Edson
,
Eric R. Louderback
,
Matthew A. Tom
,
Alessandra Grossman
, and
Debi A. LaPlante

have been expected. Specifically, they found that fixed-odds (i.e., sports gambling propositions that are selected prior to the start of a contest where the odds are set at the time the bet is placed) bettors made about 2.5 bets of 4 euros every fourth

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