Tobias-Webb, Juliette
Griggs, Rebecca L.
Kaufman, Nataly
Clark, Luke http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1103-2422
Article History
First Online: 11 July 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: LC is the Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC, which is supported by the Province of British Columbia government and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC). The BCLC is a Canadian Crown Corporation. The slot machines used in the present study were provided to the Centre by the BCLC. The Province of British Columbia government and BCLC had no further involvement in the research design, methodology, conduct, analysis or write-up of the study, and impose no constraints on publishing. LC has received a speaker honorarium from Svenska Spel (Sweden) and accepted travel/accommodation for speaking engagements from the National Center for Responsible Gaming (US) and National Association of Gambling Studies (Australia). He has not received any further direct or indirect payments from the gambling industry or groups substantially funded by gambling. He has received royalties from Cambridge Cognition Ltd. relating to the licensing of a neurocognitive test. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by the University of British Columbia Behavioural Research Ethics Board (H14-02803). All procedures involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments.