Publications

Callan, M. J., Shead, N. W., & Olson, J. M. (2015). The relation between personal relative deprivation and the urge to gambling among gamblers is moderated by problem gambling severity: A meta-analysis. Addictive Behaviors, 45, 146-149. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.01.031

Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., Paskus, T. (2014). Trends in gambling behavior among college student-athletes: A comparison of 2004 and 2008 NCAA survey data. Journal of Gambling Issues, 29, 1-21. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2014.29.18

Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., Fong, T. W., & Gupta, R. (2012). Characteristics of Internet gamblers among a sample of students at a large, public university in Southwestern United States. Journal of College Student Development, 53(1), 133-148. doi: 10.1353/csd.2012.0005

Callan, M. J., Shead, N. W., & Olson, J. M. (2011). Personal relative deprivation, delay discounting, and gambling. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(5), 955-973. doi: 10.1037/a0024778

Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., & Meerkamper, E. (2011). Your mother should know: A comparison of maternal and paternal attitudes and behaviors related to gambling among their adolescent children. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 9(3), 264-275.  doi: 10.1007/s11469-010-9279-0

Shead, N. W., Walsh, K., Taylor, A., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2011). Youth gambling prevention: Can public service announcements featuring celebrity spokespersons be effective? International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 9(2), 165-197. doi: 10.1007/s11469-009-9260-y

Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2010). Risk and protective factors associated with youth problem gambling. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 22(1), 39-58.

Moubarac, J-C, Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L. (2010). Bingo playing and problem gambling: A review of our current knowledge. Journal of Gambling Issues, 24, 164-184. doi: 10.4309/2010.24.10

Shead, N. W., & Hodgins, D. C. (2009). Affect-regulation expectancies among gamblers.Journal of Gambling Studies, 25, 357-375. doi: 10.1007/s10899-009-9131-2

Shead, N. W., & Hodgins, D. C. (2009). Probability discounting of gains and losses: Implications for risk attitudes and impulsivity. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 92, 1-16. doi: 10.1901/jeab.2009.92-1

Shead, N. W., Callan, M. J., & Hodgins, D. C. (2008). Probability discounting among gamblers: Differences across problem gambling severity and affect-regulation expectancies. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 536-541. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.008

Callan, M. J., Shead, N. W., & Olson, J. M. (2009). Foregoing the labor for the fruits: The effect of just world threat on the desire for immediate monetary rewards. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 246-249. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.013

Callan, M. J., Ellard, J. H., Shead, N. W., & Hodgins, D. C. (2008). Gambling as a search for justice: Examining the role of personal relative deprivation in gambling urges and gambling behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1514-1529. doi: 10.1177/0146167208322956

Shead, N. W., Hodgins, D. C., & Scharf, D. (2008). Differences between poker players and non-poker playing gamblers. International Gambling Studies, 8, 167-178. doi: 10.1080/14459790802139991

Hodgins, D. C., Shead, N. W., & Makarchuk, K. (2007). Relationship satisfaction and psychological distress among concerned significant others of pathological gamblers.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 65-71. doi: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000252382.47434.a6

Shead, N. W., & Dobson, K. S. (2004). Psychology for sale: The ethics of advertising professional services. Canadian Psychology, 45, 125-136. doi: 10.1037/h0086979

BOOK CHAPTERS

Shead, N. W., Derevensky, J. L., & Gupta, R. (2011). Youth problem gambling: Our current knowledge of risk and protective factors. In J. Derevensky, D. Shek, & J. Merrick (Eds.), Youth gambling problems: The hidden addiction (pp. 59-78). Berlin: De Gruyter.

Shead, N. W., & Hodgins, D. C. (2007). Substance use disorders. In J. Grant & M. Potenza (Eds.), Textbook of men’s mental health (pp. 119-142). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

RESEARCH REPORTS

Olson, J. M., Callan, M. J., & Shead, N. W. (2011). Gambling advertisements, personal relative deprivation, and gambling (Research Report No. 2814). Retrieved from Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre website: http://www.gamblingresearch.org/content/research.php?appid=2814

Callan, M. J., Shead, N. W., & Olson, J. M. (2011). Personal relative deprivation, delay discounting, and gambling (Research Report No. 2635). Retrieved from Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre website: http://www.gamblingresearch.org/content/research.php?appid=2635

Shead, N. W., Walsh, K., Taylor, A., Derevensky, J., & Gupta, R. (2009). Youth Gambling Prevention: Can celebrity-endorsed media campaigns be effective? Research report for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre.

Gupta, R., Derevensky, J., Shead, N. W., & Nower, L. (2009). Binging behaviour in young gamblers: An exploratory study of gambling patterns (Research Report No. 2340). Retrieved from Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre website: http://www.gamblingresearch.org/content/research.php?appid=2340