Pathological gambling and sensation seeking - How do gamblers playing games of chance in cafés differ from those who bet on horses at the racetrack?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 619-629

  Bonnaire, Céline ^a,b   Bungener, Catherine ^a   Varescon, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Active games; Passive games; Pathological gambling; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847241533     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350600964296     Document Type: Article

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