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Trading is a losing game: An audit of deceptive choice architecture in demo-mode Contract for Difference trading apps (2024)
Journal Article
Andrade, M., Costa, D., Weiss-Cohen, L., Torrance, J., & Newall, P. (in press). Trading is a losing game: An audit of deceptive choice architecture in demo-mode Contract for Difference trading apps. Behavioural Public Policy,

Mobile-based trading apps have made investing easier than ever before, but this includes enabling access to risky investments that many investors may not be able to trade safely. The UK financial regulator thereby requires Contract for Difference (CF... Read More about Trading is a losing game: An audit of deceptive choice architecture in demo-mode Contract for Difference trading apps.

Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges (2024)
Journal Article
Newall, P., Weiss-Cohen, L., Torrance, J., & Bart, Y. (2025). Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges. Addictive Behaviors, 160, Article 108161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108161

Public concern around gambling advertising in the UK has been met not by government action but by industry self-regulations, such as a forthcoming voluntary ban on front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship in Premier League soccer. “Safer gambling” (harm p... Read More about Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges.

When Vegas comes to Wall Street: Associations between stock price volatility and trading frequency among gamblers (2024)
Journal Article
Weiss-Cohen, L., Newall, P., Bart, Y., Zloteanu, M., Peacey, M., Ayton, P., & Clacher, I. (2024). When Vegas comes to Wall Street: Associations between stock price volatility and trading frequency among gamblers. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01229-1

Both gambling and trading involve risk-taking in exchange for potential financial gains. In particular, speculative high-risk high-frequency trading closely resembles disordered gambling behaviour by attracting the same individuals who tend to be ove... Read More about When Vegas comes to Wall Street: Associations between stock price volatility and trading frequency among gamblers.

Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study (2023)
Journal Article
Newall, P. W., Hayes, T., Singmann, H., Weiss-Cohen, L., Ludvig, E. A., & Walasek, L. (2023). Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2023.2

In October 2021, a majority of the UK gambling industry implemented a new UK safer gambling message, “take time to think”, which features on gambling advertising and websites. An effective safer gambling message could plausibly affect several relevan... Read More about Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study.