ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Gamblification of Investing: How a New Generation of Investors Is Being Born to Lose.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Problematic trading: a Systematic Review of theoretical considerations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Online Personalized Normative Feedback to Foster Intention to Change and Help Seeking in Young Adults With Disordered Gambling and Trading Behaviors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Engagement in New Gambling Practices and its Association with Gambling Disorder, Impulsivity, and Cognitive Distortions: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample of Spanish Gamblers.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- Development and validation of the Trading Disorder Scale for assessing problematic trading behaviors.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Methodological issues in behavioral addictions' research: A call for an unbiased analysis of excessive behaviors.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- Cryptocurrency Trading, Day Trading, and Gambling Behavior: Examining the Moderating Effects of Financially Focused Self-Concept and Gambling Motives.Journal of gambling studies · 2025Article
- An assessment of cryptocurrencies as a global commercial determinant of health.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- From the Flight Deck to the Trading Desk: Gamblified Investing Behavior in a Commercial Airline Pilot.Cureus · 2024Article
- Problematic trading: gambling-like behavior in day trading and cryptocurrency investing.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Gambling, cryptocurrency, and financial trading app marketing in English Premier League football: A frequency analysis of in-game logos.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Gambling-like Features in fan Tokens.Journal of gambling studies · 2023Article
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Abstract
Investing and gambling share key features, in that both involve risk, the coming together of two or more people, and both are voluntary activities. However, investing is generally a much better way than gambling for the average person to make long-run profits. This paper reviews evidence on two types of "gamblified" investment products where this advantage does not hold for investing: high-frequency stock trading and high-risk derivatives. This review defines a gamblified investment product as one that leads most investors to lose, that attracts people at risk of experiencing gambling-related harm, and that utilizes product design principles from gambling (either by encouraging a high frequency of use or by providing the allure of big lottery-like wins). The gamblification of investing produces novel challenges for the regulation of both financial markets and gambling.
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