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Dr RICHARD JAMES's Outputs (3)

Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2022)
Journal Article
Tunney, R. J., & James, R. (2022). Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), Article 220102. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220102

We report the results of a pre-registered analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing that was designed to test the hypothesis that economic scarcity is associated with individual differences in decision-making. We tested this hypo... Read More about Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
James, R. J., Dixon, G., Dragomir, M. G., Thirlwell, E., & Hitcham, L. (2023). Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review. Addictive Behaviors, 137, Article 107503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107503

It has been claimed that smartphone usage constitutes a behavioral addiction, characterised by compulsive, excessive use of one's phone and psychological withdrawal or distress when the phone is absent. However, there is uncertainty about key phenome... Read More about Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review.

Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset (2022)
Journal Article
Whiteford, S., Hoon, A. E., James, R., Tunney, R., & Dymond, S. (2022). Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6, Article 100194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100194

In-play betting involves making multiple bets during a sporting event and is an increasingly popular form of gambling. Behavioural analysis of large datasets of in-play betting may aid in the prediction of at-risk patterns of gambling. However, datas... Read More about Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset.