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Overview

Debi A. LaPlante is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and specializes in psychological research with a strong focus on gambling behavior and treatments. Their scholarly work contributes to various interconnected fields including clinical psychology, sociology and political science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, economics and econometrics, and epidemiology.

Their research predominantly addresses topics such as gambling behavior and treatments, sexuality, behavior, and technology, sports analytics and performance, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, consumer market behavior and pricing, and digital games and media.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with LaPlante include Eric R. Louderback, Heather M. Gray, Timothy C. Edson, Sarah E. Nelson, and Matthew A. Tom. These collaborations support research published mainly in recognized venues within the gambling and psychology research domains.

LaPlante's publications often appear in journals noted for their focus on gambling studies and addictive behaviors. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Gambling Studies
  • International Gambling Studies
  • Addiction Research & Theory
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
  • The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by LaPlante include:

  • Developing and validating lower risk online gambling thresholds with actual bettor data from a major Internet gambling operator (2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
  • Association between gambling and self-harm: a scoping review (2020, Addiction Research & Theory)
  • Open Science Practices in Gambling Research Publications (2016-2019): A Scoping Review (2022, Journal of Gambling Studies)
  • Integrating open science practices into recommendations for accepting gambling industry research funding (2020, Addiction Research & Theory)
  • Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting (2021, Journal of Behavioral Addictions)

Best Publications

  • Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology

    Howard J. Shaffer;Debi A. LaPlante;Richard A. LaBrie;Rachel C. Kidman

  • Surgeons' tone of voice: a clue to malpractice history

    Nalini Ambady;Debi LaPlante;Thai Nguyen;Robert Rosenthal

  • Correlates of College Student Gambling in the United States

    Richard A. LaBrie;Howard J. Shaffer;Debi A. LaPlante;Henry Wechsler

  • Laying the foundation for quantifying regional exposure to social phenomena: considering the case of legalized gambling as a public health toxin.

    Howard J. Shaffer;Richard A. LaBrie;Debi LaPlante

  • Understanding the Influence of Gambling Opportunities: Expanding Exposure Models to Include Adaptation

    Debi A. LaPlante;Howard J. Shaffer

  • Assessing the Playing Field: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Internet Sports Gambling Behavior

    Richard A. LaBrie;Richard A. LaBrie;Debi A. LaPlante;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Sarah E. Nelson;Anja Schumann

  • Real limits in the virtual world: self-limiting behavior of Internet gamblers.

    Sarah E. Nelson;Sarah E. Nelson;Debi A. LaPlante;Debi A. LaPlante;Allyson J. Peller;Anja Schumann

  • The Road Less Travelled: Moving from Distribution to Determinants in the Study of Gambling Epidemiology:

    Howard J Shaffer;Richard A LaBrie;Debi A LaPlante;Sarah E Nelson

  • Virtual harm reduction efforts for Internet gambling: effects of deposit limits on actual Internet sports gambling behavior

    Anja Broda;Debi A. LaPlante;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Sarah E. Nelson;Richard A. LaBrie;Richard A. LaBrie

  • Disordered gambling, type of gambling and gambling involvement in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007.

    Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Richard A. LaBrie;Howard J. Shaffer

  • Using the theory of planned behavior to predict gambling behavior.

    Ryan J. Martin;Stuart Usdan;Sarah Nelson;M. Renee Umstattd

  • Breadth and depth involvement: Understanding Internet gambling involvement and its relationship to gambling problems.

    Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Heather M. Gray

  • Inside the virtual casino: a prospective longitudinal study of actual Internet casino gambling.

    Richard A. LaBrie;Sara A. Kaplan;Debi A. LaPlante;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Sarah E. Nelson

  • Population trends in Internet sports gambling

    Debi A. LaPlante;Anja Schumann;Richard A. LaBrie;Howard J. Shaffer

  • Stability and Progression of Disordered Gambling: Lessons From Longitudinal Studies

    Debi A LaPlante;Sarah E Nelson;Richard A LaBrie;Howard J Shaffer

  • Sitting at the virtual poker table: A prospective epidemiological study of actual Internet poker gambling behavior

    Debi A. LaPlante;John H. Kleschinsky;Richard A. LaBrie;Sarah E. Nelson

  • Toward a paradigm shift in Internet gambling research: From opinion and self-report to actual behavior

    Howard J. Shaffer;Allyson J. Peller;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson

  • Using cross-game behavioral markers for early identification of high-risk internet gamblers.

    Julia Braverman;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Howard J. Shaffer

  • Men & women playing games: gender and the gambling preferences of Iowa gambling treatment program participants.

    Debi A. LaPlante;Debi A. LaPlante;Sarah E. Nelson;Richard A. LaBrie;Howard J. Shaffer

  • Behavioral characteristics of Internet gamblers who trigger corporate responsible gambling interventions.

    Heather M. Gray;Debi A. LaPlante;Howard J. Shaffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Shaffer
Howard J. Shaffer Harvard Medical School
Sarah E. Nelson
Sarah E. Nelson Harvard University
Richard A. LaBrie
Richard A. LaBrie Alliant International University
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Tracie O. Afifi
Tracie O. Afifi University of Manitoba
Tamara Taillieu
Tamara Taillieu University of Manitoba
Sally M. Gainsbury
Sally M. Gainsbury University of Sydney
Shane W. Kraus
Shane W. Kraus University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University

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