This course focuses on the application of psychological knowledge to gambling behaviors. Topics include motivations, decision-making strategies, cognitive heuristics and biases, group and social influences, and pathological addictive gambling behaviors. Students will be able to better formulate organizational strategies for integrated resorts and enhancing both their communication and analytical skills.

CILO-1: Describe the principles, concepts and theories central to the discipline of cross-cultural psychology of gambling. CILO-2: Articulate the theoretical framework for the understanding how the psychology impacts people’s tendency to gamble. CILO-3: Critically evaluate information from the Internet, books, the popular press, journals, and other sources regarding the gambling industry from the perspective of psychology of gambling. CILO-4: Appreciate the philosophy of the mythological approach to the study of cross-cultural psychology of gambling. CILO-5: Identify the business/policy implications of cross-cultural psychology of gambling.