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Overview

Sarah E. Nelson is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in psychology with a focus on clinical psychology and related subfields. Their research extensively covers gambling behavior and treatments, with additional work addressing sexuality, behavior, technology, and substance abuse treatment outcomes.

Their recent scholarly output includes studies such as Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting (2021) published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, and Time out: Prediction of self-exclusion from daily fantasy sports (2022) in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Other published works within the gambling studies domain include papers appearing in Addiction Research & Theory, Journal of Gambling Studies, and Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Key recent papers by or involving this researcher 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
  • Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting, 2021, Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Using "Markers of Harm" to Track Risky Gambling in Two Cohorts of Online Sports Bettors, 2022, Journal of Gambling Studies
  • Time out: Prediction of self-exclusion from daily fantasy sports, 2022, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Their frequent coauthors include Debi A. LaPlante, Eric R. Louderback, Timothy C. Edson, Matthew A. Tom, and Alessandra Grossman. These collaborations often align with publications in venues such as the Journal of Gambling Studies, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, International Gambling Studies, The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, and Addiction Research & Theory.

Research is primarily situated within psychology, notably clinical psychology, but also intersects with sociology, political science, epidemiology, and general health professions. Their work touches on specialist topics such as consumer market behavior and pricing, sports analytics and performance, indigenous health and education, and emerging fields like FinTech and digital finance.

Publication venues where this scientist frequently contributes include:

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

Their research topics encompass:

  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

Best Publications

  • Premature adolescent autonomy: parent disengagement and deviant peer process in the amplification of problem behaviour.

    Thomas J. Dishion;Sarah E. Nelson;Bernadette Marie Bullock

  • The family check-up with high-risk young adolescents: Preventing early-onset substance use by parent monitoring

    Thomas J. Dishion;Sarah E. Nelson;Kathryn Kavanagh

  • Red and orange flags for secondary headaches in clinical practice: SNNOOP10 list.

    Thien Phu Do;Angelique Remmers;Henrik Winther Schytz;Christoph Schankin

  • Actor-observer asymmetries in explanations of behavior: new answers to an old question.

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua M. Knobe;Sarah E. Nelson

  • Preventing Early Adolescent Substance Use: A Family-Centered Strategy for the Public Middle School

    Thomas J. Dishion;Kathryn Kavanagh;Alison Schneiger;Sarah Nelson

  • Alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco use trajectories from age 12 to 24 years: demographic correlates and young adult substance use problems.

    Sarah E. Nelson;Mark J. Van Ryzin;Thomas J. Dishion

  • Adolescent Friendship as a Dynamic System: Entropy and Deviance in the Etiology and Course of Male Antisocial Behavior.

    Thomas J. Dishion;Sarah E. Nelson;Charlotte E. Winter;Bernadette Marie Bullock

  • 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

  • Judging mens rea: the tension between folk concepts and legal concepts of intentionality.

    Bertram F. Malle;Sarah E. Nelson

  • 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

  • Conceptual structure and social functions of behavior explanations: beyond person--situation attributions.

    Bertram F. Malle;Joshua Knobe;Matthew J. O'Laughlin;Gale E. Pearce

  • 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

  • Predicting Early Adolescent Gang Involvement from Middle School Adaptation.

    Thomas J. Dishion;Sarah E. Nelson;Miwa Yasui

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Shaffer
Howard J. Shaffer Harvard Medical School
Debi A. LaPlante
Debi A. LaPlante Harvard Medical School
Richard A. LaBrie
Richard A. LaBrie Alliant International University
Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University
Bertram F. Malle
Bertram F. Malle Brown University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Lisa M. Najavits
Lisa M. Najavits University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Robert J. Williams
Robert J. Williams University of Lethbridge
Mark J. Van Ryzin
Mark J. Van Ryzin Oregon Research Institute
Jeffrey L. Derevensky
Jeffrey L. Derevensky McGill University

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