Ever thought of doing your thesis on Gambling ?

[swogerino]

In my country if you do a thesis on gambling all the other students of your class will be astonished for the bad and not the good,no matter how good you did the thesis.That is the general opinion here that they don't like any person who makes some paper on gambling even if that paper just emphasizes the problems of our society.The only place where such thesis would be allowed here is if you are a student or post graduate of psychology and you write such thesis,if you do it in any other place not only you will not get any money but you will get a bad opinion for yourself overall from all the audience you present it.

On the other side it is great to see countries such as the Netherlands giving money to people who make thesis to solve society problems as gambling is a problem although us gamblers will never acknowledge this.

[Kemarit]

In my country if you do a thesis on gambling all the other students of your class will be astonished for the bad and not the good,no matter how good you did the thesis.That is the general opinion here that they don't like any person who makes some paper on gambling even if that paper just emphasizes the problems of our society.The only place where such thesis would be allowed here is if you are a student or post graduate of psychology and you write such thesis,if you do it in any other place not only you will not get any money but you will get a bad opinion for yourself overall from all the audience you present it.

On the other side it is great to see countries such as the Netherlands giving money to people who make thesis to solve society problems as gambling is a problem although us gamblers will never acknowledge this.

Perhaps it's has also a good side, as written in the article. Of course any society will think that gambling is bad not just in your country. It's the stigma that brings with it. However, if you are doing thesis like post graduate studies, then I doubt that other students will think of it. All of you are now professional and maybe it's time that someone really understand what gambling addictions is, thus more study is needed to categorized them so that proper treatment could be given.

[Finestream]

If you’re a curious one and finding for the answer, you can really have this kind of topic but of course you must be on a legal age so you can get datas that you may needed in order for you to accomplish this topic. This is an interesting one, you just need to know the scope of your study to lessen the respondents. Doing your Thesis is one of the big challenges in your student career, if the University acknowledge it and even give you a reward, most probably you really down a great job.

In order for your thesis to be more realistic and effective, then you should experience it yourself how to gamble so you can provide real life experiences that would convince the readers. However, knowing most of those who create thesis are those minor students, i guess providing real life experiences is not possible. But if they can make a good interview on gamblers on different fields, that will serve justification on what you wrote on your thesis. I think creating thesis on gambling would be more fun and informative too as its based more on facts and experiences of the gamblers, and not just on speculations alone.

[goldkingcoiner]

According to this article, the Dutch Gambling Authority have awarded 4000€ to students for two Gambling Related thesis.

Leonard Delank, a master’s student at the University of Groningen and Newcastle University, wrote a paper on loot boxes; items that feature in many video games and offer players a random reward.
In his thesis, Delank drew on the theories of 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that people have a moral obligation to do the right thing.
Ultimately, he came to the conclusion that loot boxes are not ethical. For his paper, the KSA awarded Delank €2,500

I think in the paper there were few points that were really interesting, most of the times physicians do categorize the gambling addiction into mental disorder but some might accidentally compare it to the OCD. Whereas it claimed how the gamblers who are addicted are 'too uncertain' therefore should be treated seperate from the OCD patients. Apparently the mentality lied in being sensitive to rewards, overconfidence, overestimation as well.

I think it's a wise article and should be taken as a reference when any medical help is being provided to gamblers and at the same time gamblers should also take a note and understand the psychology better.

Would you ever consider doing your research in Gambling? https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/16389/ksa-awards-4000-to-students-for-gambling-theses

So a student could put in months or maybe years of his time into an "academic gambling" effort for a chance to win an award for best gambling related thesis? Sounds like a great gambling opportunity  

Personally I come from a physics background so I guess I could take a look at the mathmatical aspect for a thesis in gambling but I am sure a mathematician write it 2x faster than me.

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

[Cryptock]

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

If I ever gets a chance to do a gambling thesis - I will do it on the side effects of gambling.
Because I have read so much about the destruction made by the gambling. People gets into the gambling but like a muddy puddle they keep pushing themselves in the puddle and its hard to come out of it clean. That's my 2 cents of suggestion

[Gianluca95]

It is a question of mentality, I guess. It depends mainly from it, and from the country which you livin it.

If you would do this in Italy, I guess that you should be mocked from the other students and also from the teachers because you're speaking of an argument that isn't socially accepted, here.

[Viscore]

It would be a great pleasure to carryout a thesis on gambling. Such academic work is very rare in my country yet my homeland have the highest number of gamblers in the continent. It would be very pleasing to tackle issues like gambling addictions, behavior of gamblers, the management of gambling firms and behavior of top management of gambling firms. If I can secure a grant from any of the gambling firm I would gladly put my intellectual resources in that direction. And it would be very easy to carryout the research work because the respondents are available and accessible.   

That is one advantage of doing thesis in gambling because all the resources are widely available and you can even trace easily the problems and solutions to gambling behaviors. Unlike other topics in thesis, you need more proven evidences to make your thesis reliable but when it comes to gambling, its easy for you to provide reliable proofs because majority of the people around are born with passion in gambling.

[goldkingcoiner]

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

If I ever gets a chance to do a gambling thesis - I will do it on the side effects of gambling.
Because I have read so much about the destruction made by the gambling. People gets into the gambling but like a muddy puddle they keep pushing themselves in the puddle and its hard to come out of it clean. That's my 2 cents of suggestion

Well in that case I would recommend going into psychology or a similar but neurobiological field so you can actually see what exactly is happening to the head of a gambling addict. I bet that whatever it is, it has something to do with a dopamine receptor malfunction.

Same as with drug addicts, really.

It's not good if it happens to someone but everyone has the right to make their own choices.

[Theones]

It would be a great pleasure to carryout a thesis on gambling. Such academic work is very rare in my country yet my homeland have the highest number of gamblers in the continent. It would be very pleasing to tackle issues like gambling addictions, behavior of gamblers, the management of gambling firms and behavior of top management of gambling firms. If I can secure a grant from any of the gambling firm I would gladly put my intellectual resources in that direction. And it would be very easy to carryout the research work because the respondents are available and accessible.   

That is one advantage of doing thesis in gambling because all the resources are widely available and you can even trace easily the problems and solutions to gambling behaviors. Unlike other topics in thesis, you need more proven evidences to make your thesis reliable but when it comes to gambling, its easy for you to provide reliable proofs because majority of the people around are born with passion in gambling.

Did you know - in some counties there are very stricts restrictions on the gambling, people practice it with respect and keep themselves gambling free. While coming towards west some communities cannot think of their life without gambling, I some culture parent would give a very tough time to their kids if they find out they are gambling.

[Tumanggor]

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Would you ever consider doing your research in Gambling? https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/16389/ksa-awards-4000-to-students-for-gambling-theses

if i was a psychiatrist student I would probably be very interested in studying about gambler for my thesis. I am happy with anything related to psychology, especially if I can cure a gambler from his addiction then I have saved other people and also his future

unfortunately in my country gambling is illegal so there are no psychiatrists who make about gambling as their thesis (maybe there are but only a handful of people)

[KennyR]

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

If I ever gets a chance to do a gambling thesis - I will do it on the side effects of gambling.
Because I have read so much about the destruction made by the gambling. People gets into the gambling but like a muddy puddle they keep pushing themselves in the puddle and its hard to come out of it clean. That's my 2 cents of suggestion

There is advantage as well as disadvantages. Make the thesis along with the success and failure stories. This means make a comparison chart to indicate which stands high among the users. Without that just mentioning the side effects like mental stress, financial burst out etc. You could've read more destruction that have happened out of gambling. Same time there is more success stories that have happened out of gambling.

[goldkingcoiner]

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

If I ever gets a chance to do a gambling thesis - I will do it on the side effects of gambling.
Because I have read so much about the destruction made by the gambling. People gets into the gambling but like a muddy puddle they keep pushing themselves in the puddle and its hard to come out of it clean. That's my 2 cents of suggestion

There is advantage as well as disadvantages. Make the thesis along with the success and failure stories. This means make a comparison chart to indicate which stands high among the users. Without that just mentioning the side effects like mental stress, financial burst out etc. You could've read more destruction that have happened out of gambling. Same time there is more success stories that have happened out of gambling.

I guess you are right. If you were to think about it a bit more deeply, you could perhaps find the correct statistics on profit and loss of gamblers, especially those of gambling addicts.

If I were to guess, then I would say 99% are losses, over a long term analysis of their gambling behaviors.

If you go even deeper into the statical nature, you could write a mathematical thesis paper on gambling.

[Silberman]

In my country if you do a thesis on gambling all the other students of your class will be astonished for the bad and not the good,no matter how good you did the thesis.That is the general opinion here that they don't like any person who makes some paper on gambling even if that paper just emphasizes the problems of our society.The only place where such thesis would be allowed here is if you are a student or post graduate of psychology and you write such thesis,if you do it in any other place not only you will not get any money but you will get a bad opinion for yourself overall from all the audience you present it.

On the other side it is great to see countries such as the Netherlands giving money to people who make thesis to solve society problems as gambling is a problem although us gamblers will never acknowledge this.

Without a doubt that is a problem, different societies have different considerations about the topics they consider to be taboo, and in some societies to talk about gambling is one of those topics, something which is a shame as there are a significant amount of angles you can take about a subject which is so deep, like why some people get addicted to it while some others do not, the long term effects of gambling addictions, the amount of people which actually can beat gambling addiction long term and so on.

[AicecreaME]

But the mental disorder paper does sound somewhat interesting.  

If I ever gets a chance to do a gambling thesis - I will do it on the side effects of gambling.
Because I have read so much about the destruction made by the gambling. People gets into the gambling but like a muddy puddle they keep pushing themselves in the puddle and its hard to come out of it clean. That's my 2 cents of suggestion

There is advantage as well as disadvantages. Make the thesis along with the success and failure stories. This means make a comparison chart to indicate which stands high among the users. Without that just mentioning the side effects like mental stress, financial burst out etc. You could've read more destruction that have happened out of gambling. Same time there is more success stories that have happened out of gambling.

Valid point. Someone who is interested in making a thesis about gambling can do this. Perhaps this could give a wider perception and viewpoint to the readers of the research. This could open the eyes of the people as to why people decide to gamble despite the risks it possess. A comparative study together with explanation of the good and bad side of gambling can be a good match.

Although take everyone's opinion about it with a grain of salt because as you know, gambling has a very bad reputation in the mainstream media. And we can't really blame for what people think of it based on what they frequently see or hear. What we can do is just prove it otherwise.

[Cryptock]

Valid point. Someone who is interested in making a thesis about gambling can do this. Perhaps this could give a wider perception and viewpoint to the readers of the research. This could open the eyes of the people as to why people decide to gamble despite the risks it possess. A comparative study together with explanation of the good and bad side of gambling can be a good match.

Although take everyone's opinion about it with a grain of salt because as you know, gambling has a very bad reputation in the mainstream media. And we can't really blame for what people think of it based on what they frequently see or hear. What we can do is just prove it otherwise.

There are people of different communities living in society and i am amazed to see - some communities - do not gamble at all.
For them gambling is forbidden in their culture and religion. If we further ask them - they give valid reason - some are really good one.

[Fortify]

According to this article, the Dutch Gambling Authority have awarded 4000€ to students for two Gambling Related thesis.

Leonard Delank, a master’s student at the University of Groningen and Newcastle University, wrote a paper on loot boxes; items that feature in many video games and offer players a random reward.
In his thesis, Delank drew on the theories of 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that people have a moral obligation to do the right thing.
Ultimately, he came to the conclusion that loot boxes are not ethical. For his paper, the KSA awarded Delank €2,500

I think in the paper there were few points that were really interesting, most of the times physicians do categorize the gambling addiction into mental disorder but some might accidentally compare it to the OCD. Whereas it claimed how the gamblers who are addicted are 'too uncertain' therefore should be treated seperate from the OCD patients. Apparently the mentality lied in being sensitive to rewards, overconfidence, overestimation as well.

I think it's a wise article and should be taken as a reference when any medical help is being provided to gamblers and at the same time gamblers should also take a note and understand the psychology better.

Would you ever consider doing your research in Gambling? https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/16389/ksa-awards-4000-to-students-for-gambling-theses

It's actually a rather interesting topic to get into and there are so many different topics to cover, it'd be an excellent field of study where you could write lots of content. There are so many different emotions involved, habit forming triggers, along with chemical and physical changes in the body that seeks to continue a gambling habit. Any study into the behavior of addiction could lead to new cures or ways to prevent it from taking over peoples lives, hopefully the authors go on to prevent or help many others who are suffering under this affliction which can be very wasteful at the extreme end. Hardcore addicts really do end up throwing their lives away when they could be contributing so much more to society.

[Fatunad]

According to this article, the Dutch Gambling Authority have awarded 4000€ to students for two Gambling Related thesis.

Leonard Delank, a master’s student at the University of Groningen and Newcastle University, wrote a paper on loot boxes; items that feature in many video games and offer players a random reward.
In his thesis, Delank drew on the theories of 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that people have a moral obligation to do the right thing.
Ultimately, he came to the conclusion that loot boxes are not ethical. For his paper, the KSA awarded Delank €2,500

I think in the paper there were few points that were really interesting, most of the times physicians do categorize the gambling addiction into mental disorder but some might accidentally compare it to the OCD. Whereas it claimed how the gamblers who are addicted are 'too uncertain' therefore should be treated seperate from the OCD patients. Apparently the mentality lied in being sensitive to rewards, overconfidence, overestimation as well.

I think it's a wise article and should be taken as a reference when any medical help is being provided to gamblers and at the same time gamblers should also take a note and understand the psychology better.

Would you ever consider doing your research in Gambling? https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/16389/ksa-awards-4000-to-students-for-gambling-theses

It's actually a rather interesting topic to get into and there are so many different topics to cover, it'd be an excellent field of study where you could write lots of content. There are so many different emotions involved, habit forming triggers, along with chemical and physical changes in the body that seeks to continue a gambling habit. Any study into the behavior of addiction could lead to new cures or ways to prevent it from taking over peoples lives, hopefully the authors go on to prevent or help many others who are suffering under this affliction which can be very wasteful at the extreme end. Hardcore addicts really do end up throwing their lives away when they could be contributing so much more to society.

But prepare yourself whenever the defend day or due date would happen.Gambling is a broad kind of topic where you should really make yourself ready on answering in regards or in related with
gambling which is something usual on a thesis.Some might think that this scope is just easy but in overall this wont really be that something that could be easily defend with.
So its up to someone whether they would be choosing this topic or subject or not.

[michellee]

Valid point. Someone who is interested in making a thesis about gambling can do this. Perhaps this could give a wider perception and viewpoint to the readers of the research. This could open the eyes of the people as to why people decide to gamble despite the risks it possess. A comparative study together with explanation of the good and bad side of gambling can be a good match.

Although take everyone's opinion about it with a grain of salt because as you know, gambling has a very bad reputation in the mainstream media. And we can't really blame for what people think of it based on what they frequently see or hear. What we can do is just prove it otherwise.

There are people of different communities living in society and i am amazed to see - some communities - do not gamble at all.
For them gambling is forbidden in their culture and religion. If we further ask them - they give valid reason - some are really good one.

Maybe it's because they see gambling does not provide benefits for them that they decide not to gamble at all. It is a great example for the rest of society so that they too can follow suit and start staying away from gambling.

In some cultures and religions, gambling is prohibited and cannot be played and it has become the rule in their place. But if it's for a thesis, I think people can ask for permission to continue the thesis to get data that may be useful for other people.

[bitterguy28]

Valid point. Someone who is interested in making a thesis about gambling can do this. Perhaps this could give a wider perception and viewpoint to the readers of the research. This could open the eyes of the people as to why people decide to gamble despite the risks it possess. A comparative study together with explanation of the good and bad side of gambling can be a good match.

Although take everyone's opinion about it with a grain of salt because as you know, gambling has a very bad reputation in the mainstream media. And we can't really blame for what people think of it based on what they frequently see or hear. What we can do is just prove it otherwise.

There are people of different communities living in society and i am amazed to see - some communities - do not gamble at all.
For them gambling is forbidden in their culture and religion. If we further ask them - they give valid reason - some are really good one.

Maybe it's because they see gambling does not provide benefits for them that they decide not to gamble at all. It is a great example for the rest of society so that they too can follow suit and start staying away from gambling.

I have some friends that hates to gamble eversince , we even encouraged and let them play in the past but in the end? they still cannot manage to like gambling so lets respect their beliefs and vies in life.

In some cultures and religions, gambling is prohibited and cannot be played and it has become the rule in their place. But if it's for a thesis, I think people can ask for permission to continue the thesis to get data that may be useful for other people.

Yups. I believe that Muslims really prohibit their followers and believers to gamble and this is how religion makes people to decide for their own good.

[Peanutswar]

In my country if you do a thesis on gambling all the other students of your class will be astonished for the bad and not the good,no matter how good you did the thesis.That is the general opinion here that they don't like any person who makes some paper on gambling even if that paper just emphasizes the problems of our society.The only place where such thesis would be allowed here is if you are a student or post graduate of psychology and you write such thesis,if you do it in any other place not only you will not get any money but you will get a bad opinion for yourself overall from all the audience you present it.

On the other side it is great to see countries such as the Netherlands giving money to people who make thesis to solve society problems as gambling is a problem although us gamblers will never acknowledge this.

I got encountered here in my country related to the gambling is all about psychological issues i read some of them and told that it mostly changes and affects the emotions and mental state of the player such as they are getting angry easily short-tempered and etc because of the pressure and stress given by the game itself instead of they will play of entertainment stress they got.