A comparison of the autonomic arousal of frequent, infrequent and non-gamblers while playing fruit machines

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-59

  Moodie, Crawford ^a   Finnigan, Frances ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Fruit machines; Gambling; Specialist play characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PULSE OXIMETRY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; RECREATION;

EID: 12744253472     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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