Motivational Pathways to Pathological Gambling

Principal Investigator: Adam Goodie, Ph.D., University of Georgia

Awarded $172,233 in 2009

This project will test whether certain personality types may have a direct, causal link to pathological gambling. The goal of the project is to improve understanding of the determining factors that contribute to the development of gambling disorders to help inform prevention and treatment of different kinds of disordered gamblers.

New Investigator Grant—Gambling Behaviors Among Youth: A Developmental Behavioral Genetic Perspective

Principal Investigator: Serena M. King, Ph.D., L.P., Hamline University

Awarded $57,318 in 2009

Under the mentorship of Dr. Ken Winters, University of Minnesota, Dr. King will analyze large-scale twin studies to examine the roles that behavioral problems, genes and environment play in gambling behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood.