Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.
Latest papers
Gambling Streams and Gambling Intentions: Testing via the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Journal of gambling studies · 2026 · senior author
Beyond passivity: Depressive symptoms predict persistent active avoidance under ambiguity.
Behaviour research and therapy · 2026
"Creation involved a lot of inspiration which drove me to create, and the creation was a record of myself at different moments": a nine-month photovoice study of creative practices and recovery from bipolar disorder.
BMC psychiatry · 2026
Latest funding
- $96,914
Understanding rapid emotional responses to risky choice outcomes in problem gambling
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $118,000
Reward uncertainty and immersion as drivers of excessive consumption
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $612,000
The effects of reward cues on risky decision making: the role of dopamine and relevance to addiction
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
96 publications.
Gambling Streams and Gambling Intentions: Testing via the Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Fu CWF, Wu R, Clark L
Beyond passivity: Depressive symptoms predict persistent active avoidance under ambiguity.
Tomm RJ, Kalenteridis L, Lee AC, Thorpe A, White EJ, Clark L, Floresco SB, Chakrabarty T, Todd RM
"Creation involved a lot of inspiration which drove me to create, and the creation was a record of myself at different moments": a nine-month photovoice study of creative practices and recovery from bipolar disorder.
Tse S, Yuen WWY, Lo IWK, Johnson SL, Michalak EE, Clark L, Luk TSK
Open science practices in behavioral addictions: An exploratory survey.
Eben C, Heirene RM, Palmer L, Billieux J, Bőthe B, Brevers D, Chen Z, Grubbs JB, Kräplin A, Lewczuk K, Newall P, Perales JC, Peters J, van Holst RJ, Clark L
Risk, reward or repetition? New data on human ventral tegmental area stimulation challenge dominant frameworks.
Clark L, Winstanley CA
Does the Habit Theory of Addictions Extend to Disordered Gambling?
van Timmeren T, Clark L
Effects of Audiovisual Cues on Game Immersion during Simulated Slot Machine Gambling.
Arshad F, Ferrari MA, Murch WS, Cherkasova MV, Limbrick-Oldfield EH, Winstanley CA, Clark L
Gambling website design as a factor in North American betting expansion.
Clark L, Weston PW
Depression Levels Are Associated with Reduced Capacity to Learn to Actively Avoid Aversive Events in Young Adults.
Tomm RJ, Forys BJ, Kalenteridis L, Daly ID, Terpstra AR, Clark L, Floresco SB, Chakrabarty T, Todd RM
A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration.
Babor TF, Adinoff B, Clark L, Crockford D, Demetrovics Z, Dietze P, Fallu JS, Gainsbury S, Gilchrist G, Gorelick DA, Graham K, Grebely J, Heim D, Hellman M, Laslett AM, McCuistian C, Miovsky M, Morojele NK, Moskalewicz J, Obot IS, Pates R, Room R, Rychert M, Sultan A, Treloar C, Turner NE, Wells S, Williams EC, Witkiewitz K
Understanding rapid emotional responses to risky choice outcomes in problem gambling
Principal investigators: Otto, Ross
Keywords: Decision-Making; Emotion; Problem Gambling; Psychophysiology; Risk
Reward uncertainty and immersion as drivers of excessive consumption
Principal investigators: Clark, Luke
Keywords: gambling; reward; uncertainty; immersion; decision-making; attention; video games; digital technologies; psychophysiology
The effects of reward cues on risky decision making: the role of dopamine and relevance to addiction
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A
Keywords: Addiction; Cognition; Decision Making; Dopamine; Eye-Tracking; Gambling; Neuropsychology; Pet (Positron Emission Topography)
The neural and cognitive representation of money in decision-making
Principal investigators: Clark, Luke
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Bernard Le Foll and Isabelle Boileau: 32 shared papers
- Isabelle Boileau and Martin Zack: 6 shared papers
- Kathryn Graham and Luke Clark: 3 shared papers
- Martin Zack and Luke Clark: 3 shared papers
- Luke Clark and Trisha Chakrabarty: 3 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Lena Quilty: 2 shared papers
- Luke Clark and Miriam Spering: 2 shared papers
- Bernard Le Foll and Martin Zack: 1 shared paper
- Bernard Le Foll and Luke Clark: 1 shared paper
- David Hodgins and Luke Clark: 1 shared paper
- Darrel Manitowabi and Lena Quilty: 1 shared paper
- Darrel Manitowabi and Luke Clark: 1 shared paper
- Isabelle Boileau and Luke Clark: 1 shared paper
- Lena Quilty and Luke Clark: 1 shared paper
- Lena Quilty and Trisha Chakrabarty: 1 shared paper
- Luke Clark and Dale Griffin: 1 shared paper
- Luke Clark and Nassim Tabri: 1 shared paper
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Psychiatry
- Department of Family and Community Medicine
- Management, Business, Administrative Studies
- Human Sciences
- Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Trisha Chakrabarty
Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2026
Kathryn Graham
Clinical Public Health Division
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Martin Zack
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Miriam Spering
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Nassim Tabri
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Dale Griffin
Management, Business, Administrative Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Darrel Manitowabi
Human Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Bernard Le Foll
Department of Family and Community Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Isabelle Boileau
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Lena Quilty
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2020
David Hodgins
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
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