Michael Souza - Psychology of Gambling
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- Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Michael Souza is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia. In this lecture, he will review reward and addiction from a behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological standpoint. We will also examine the social psychology behind gambling behavior, casino structuring and casino marketing.
I'm watching these videos to help me overcome my gambling addiction. I don't want the anxiety and stress it causes anymore.
How is it going for you?
Im here for exact same reasom but my brain just seems not being able to understand this
I believe in you guys..go to the gym , etc you can change your mindset and have willpower and have self control..change your beliefs ..look at law of attraction videos on TH-cam..reprogram your thoughts..and know that we human beings are more than enough and nothing is impossible. Just believe. God wants your well being and loves you. You got this! Love and blessings!
what worked for me is being inside casino one day and just looking how miserable people around me are, and how i "shame" them, just to figure that i'm the same, if not worst. It started consume me inside, notion that i'm just "junkie" that spends time and money while being miserable.
Walked away, never looked back. Literally felt reborned within next 3 weeks.
Ofc now i have way more money as well, it's actually amazing how money finds way to you ,once you start burning it.
Good luck !! You can do it
step number one is : admit you are "junkie" that needs help.
Step 2: feel fine with notion that you will never get your money back. It's gone.
step 3: you are not "smarter, luckier or unluckier " than people who win and lose more. You all end up losing.
Step 4: walk away, but don't stress yourself about milestones. Day, week, month means nothing. Day after day simply avoid it. Affter some time you will feel 2 things:
1) you have more money
2 ) you are waaaaaaaaay less depressed.
3 ) It's not worth it
Well said great advice
I love this part "Day, week, month means nothing. Day after day simply avoid it. " So many people at 12 step meetings love to boast about the days and weeks and months. Whether you've abstained for 12 days or 12 years, the next bet could be right around the corner.
Exactly!!!
@@ricardosoca7380 been out of it for a year. Feels great. I hope that people used lockdown as great tool to get off addiction.
i agee with all besides step 3 some gamblers are luckier than others because ive witnessed with my own 2 eyes over the last 35 years.
One time I won $800 at the casino. I knew I should go home. However I told myself " hey let me play just $100 of this. Who knows, maybe I'll turn a good night into a great night. If I lose, who cares, I can then leave with a really good $700. However after losing the $100, now I say to myself " ehhh I couldddd try just $100 more. If I lose that I'll leave with that remaining $600. Still a heckuva day right? " Well next thing I know I'm down to $300 and my thought process changes to " omg I can't leave with a measley $300 when I had a really nice $800 three hours ago!!! I absolutely HAVE to get that $500 back!!! Then I'll be back to $800 and THIS TIME I'll leave ( supposedly ) " Down to $200, down to $100, down to $20. Need gas but say screw it, down to $0. Now I want to puke and/or kick myself in the nuts. Mentally exhausted, stressed out, sickening feeling as I have a walk of shame to my car 😢😭😡🤬🤮
Even worse doing this online. Way easier to sit home and do this can't imagine doing it in person
That's the biggest problem we face,if you win u can't leave unless you lose everything...
@@josephsiyanda.5112 Yep, fighting a losing battle.
Haha I lost 2K plenty of nights after being up
Been here too
I have been addicted to pretty much everything, drugs,alcohol,sex and gambling. Gambling has been the worse I’ve lost everything I’ve worked hard for and compulsively keep chasing my loses. I’m 26 and have lost 26k of my savings and now have nothing left. I struggle with the relationships around me and feel that I’ve destroyed myself and let everyone down. I can’t let go I’ve lost all my money and have won it back several times just to lose it all over again. It has been the worse emotional rollercoaster in my life and made me feel so worthless.
hey man how r u doing now? its hard but through Christ all things are possible... been an addict, drugs, sex, alcohol, porn, and now my mind wants me to go to gambling thats why im here watching this... 7 years clean and have been celibate for close to a year but the addict still rages... but Christ didnt die for me to give up He didnt die for us to give in... He died for us to have life and to have it more abundantly... hmu man...
I feel your pain
I’ve done the same thing
Been gambling for 11 years and this has happened to me over 100 times
It doesn’t get better, so Stop Now
!!!!!!!
Hey brother you might want to check if you have an ADHD.It sounds to me that you are always seeking a dopamine spike.If thats the case and you identify it many things,maybe all,that plagues you will fall in place and there are a lot of things that you can do to manage it and overcome it.
Jesus man, I hope you're in a better place now. It's better to understand and stomach defeat instead of constantly fighting an uphill battle.
@@marcuscarter9402 ❤
From working in a gas station for 2 years in Florida, I can say that I have experienced a lot of what this guy is talking about 1st hand. I have never gambled in my entire life, and watching the way that it controls people was one of the most existentially horrific things I've ever witnessed. It really changed the way that I thought about addiction.
The crazy part is, alot of people don't see how gambling can be addictive.. this addiction kills people emotionally
that is so accurate, gambling is a progressive addiction meaning it will just get worse over time. it is truly scary to watch people go to casinos and sink their life saving into the place. i have a family member who is addicted to sport betting and he has won a few times, thats usually the catlyst to this addiction, "a big win" occurs usually something like turning 20 bucks into 500 and its over
This professor obviously knows what he is talking about. He, not only has personal but, has professional insight into this subject. He is worth listening to.
WOW, this man talking about smartphone addiction nearly 10 years ago!! Way ahead of his time!
Lol I did not have a cell phone untill I was 20 which was in 2008 but as soon as I got one my life has been on this phone 24/7 even as I am writing this
To double your money, fold it up and put it in your pocket.
I’m to tight to even do that. I played video poker once. I don’t know anything about poker. Guy beside me was telling me what to do. I started with 20 ended up with 60. I shot the guy beside me a 20 for helping and walked away. Went and ate buffet. Never had an urge to do it again. Not even lotto.
Jaja I like that
Can we get Michael to come and speak again? It's been 11 years since this talk, gambling has become much more rampant now especially with the rise of online casinos like stake. Would love to hear Michael talk about the current gambling situation, he's so eloquent in the way he hits the point home.
Agreed, he's an amazing speaker.
This is a brilliant lecture. Constantly referring to Las Vegas as Loss Vegas is a stroke of genius.
Yeah I went on a road trip from Cali to Florida with a friend and we stopped at Vegas, spent all the money I had all night long, had someone else telling me what machine to play as he was all out of money to lol.. had to borrow money the rest of the trip
This video is such gold. Love this guy. Great topic and amazingly executed. True blessings that this is publicly available
This is very interesting to me because my sister is a senior casino hostess. She comps everything from free night stays, show tickets, fine dining, cigarettes, just about anything to get the guests to keep coming back. It works. She encourages all players to use their club card. It is the casino's tracking device. If a player hasn't been tracked in a while they call them back with temping offers. The casinos know your habits better than you realize.
Im so tired of gambling 😭
I quit 6 months ago (again )went back two days ago lost all my savings .Now I had to handle all my cards to my mother and go for treatment.When you think you are cured ,you are not .Very sad disease.God bless you
That sucks, yeah if you got the disease you are stuck with it forever and it is better just not to gamble, I hate watching people win money and be able to leave that easy, my addiction stops me from doing that easily
@@sillywillie5076 I’m very glad I’m doing better investing on my self ,psycological treatment and personal goals .If I did anyone can
@@Costalongadiogo yeah I feel you, you should be proud of yourself because it is hard to stop doing no matter how long you stopped doing it for, I was clean for two years and it went down the drain in just a matter of moments that were weak.. any day that you do not gamble is a miracle when you have this curse.. I was 3 years clean of drinking and in a matter of seconds I was back to drinking just like that so it is important to keep staying clean for your own good, not for others sake
@@Costalongadiogo one thing that I commend you on though is you giving up your card to your mom, that is single handedly the most important thing you could have done for yourself, at my weakest point I could not grasp letting someone else hold on to my finances, my ego just could not let that happen but as I got older I realized that is the best thing to do! When we are at our weakest point we need to trust others to have our best interest
@@sillywillie5076 I know right sometimes in bad days the urge comes but I really talk to god and trust the universe to be strong and love your self the urge goes away .Now I have all my cards .I really pray for all gamblers it’s sad it really is especially good hearthy people like you
VERY GOOD LECTURE. This has started to open my eyes and mind on this topic.
Awesome prof. Highly recommend him for his extremely fluid lectures.
A wonderful lecture, a must for any compulsive gambler! Kudos to Dr Souza. Any of the idiotic comments recommending betting sites and claiming to make a living are either stupid or work for the sites!
He gives a COMPASSIONATE lecture!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
great lecture. thanks for the upload
Dr. Mike Souza is the best professor at UBC!!!
Thanks for sharing that lecture and story. It will help.
Great lecturer, looking at this from the 2023 future, when everyone is addicted to their phones, gambling apps are everywhere, loot box mechanics in games, and the AI is just about to completely take over...it seems like simpler times.
how do I get more recordings of this brilliant man's work. He covers so many critical elements.
The lecture was very interesting and well delivered. I will try to find the lecture that gets into more of the physiological elements. By the way in 2018 Macau revenues are more than twice that of Las Vegas.
Amazing video. Absolutely amazing
Phenomenal lecture.
This lecturer is phenomenal
A brilliant talk thank you.
You know its an addiction when you try and win back the money you lost...
no, i disagree. The addiction isn't when you want to win and believe you can win,, it's when you think it's okay to lose and keep going.
like trying to rationalize by thinking you can make money out of it, like a job. like "gamers" promoting casino online, pretending odds are not in there favour, or that they don't receive actual salaries from sponsors.
Many use gambling to relieve painful thoughts of divorce or loss of a child . The escape builds the addition. gtret job
I'm not a gambler, but so interesting in the psychology and lures casinos use to get you to gamble. A wonderful talk, thank you.
Gambling, porn, drugs etc are all Traps for the human mind. Understand the enemy deeply so you can know better how to deal with him. Just the fact that these Traps have manged to Ruin & Obliterate millions of L-i-f-e-s shows the Incredible Power and Grip that they have on the human Psyche. These traps are not to be underestimated..~!!
Islam opened my eyes to all of these traps. So glad I found Islam. Alhumdulillah.
Amazing speaker
Very good knowledge on gambling it's highly additive just like drugs and alcohol there are so many addictions in this world just have be a strong and spiritual.
Thank you for this video Dr. Souza for raising awareness of this sick disease of compulsive gambling. Part of the psychology of a compulsive gambler is that he wants to always win (well actually he wants to always play) and when you tell him he's never going to really win or get the "big win," he feels that you're taking away all his hopes and dreams. But we both know that winning is actually the worst thing that can happen to a pathological gambler.
Thanks for the video, grateful recovering compulsive gambler
how bizarre, i have a family memeber dealing with compulsive gambling to sport betting. reading that "he really just wants to always play", was such an eye opener. how can one balance the urge to play and always wanting a W? i'm glad i do not participate in this because it seems mind spinning.
I just graduated from gambling after attending this class thanks professor
Top lecturer! I studied Consumer Psych' MSc and have had cannabis and gambling addictions along the way in life, and I really think the reward systems presented here and which I studied in Addictive Behaviours in my Psych' BSc should form part of the Consumer Psych MSc that I studied. I hope it is included now. I would've loved these lectures by this lecturer in my MSc course. I feel consumerism and addictive behaviours are highly related due to the things presented here that prove vendors of many products or services exploit the addictive nature of our brains to sell their shit. Im just anti consumerism altogether by now and have zero trust in businesses and politicians lol
Very informative. Thank you
brilliant lecture. I'm one of those "pathological gamblers" who thinks they're somehow in control of the game. Control is key. We have so little control in the real world that control in this make believe world is very attractive.
Finished his psych 207 course today :D he's definitely one memorable prof
Did you blow him dry
Aww would love to take his course
Very true video!!! Thanks eye opener!!!
Amazing. Very important stuff right here.
Gambling is the worst thing happened to me and I fucken just can't stop. I live next to Atlantic City and I remember the first day I gamble 🎲 and lost 20 dollars I was upset for two days , now I lose every penny I make for the last 12 years , very sad 😔.
Replace the bad habit with a new habit. Make a routine so that everytime you want to gamble you do this other habit.
Its a heart wrenching disease destroys your soul and the depression from it is horrendous. Leaves u isolated and alone and leaves u riddled with guilt and anxiety cause u get money from somewhere u shouldn't
It's horrible & I know. As truckers- we have access to casinos all over, & we been to a lot. Pray to the Lord that you get so sick of it, that's exactly what I did & it's happening!!🙄try it
move to another place, get therapy
fadi azzam - how are you doing? Can you give us an update?
i love Dr. souza!!
''I don't have a cellphone any more''.
I thought I was the only one. Once you ditch it you see just how obsessive peoples' behaviour has become with them.
this guy is a ledge... thanks you Dr Souza
Is there any way to connect with this professor? I absolutely LOVE this presentation!
Thank you so much for posting it on here!
Show up to his office hours 😆
Great, insightful!
Winners don't have problems gambling. It's the losers who have the problem. Their problem is chasing losses. They can't just accept that they lost. No they got to go and they got to chase it to the end. And the losses always run faster than they do.
This is very professional with good research. I am a real gambler trying to escape. I know what he is talking about.
thanks for the video
Such a horrible feeling to blow your paycheck within 2 - 3 hours of getting it. Driving home with tears in your eyes and wondering how in the hell am I gonna pay for gas/groceries the next 13 days? Loans? Credit cards? Pawn shop? All terrible choices 😢
Takes weeks to make what we lose in an hour
Been there, horrendous
@@dididhbdde6571 You got that right. Sometimes months 😥
That's so true I never realized how much Hollywood glamorized gambling. Everybody in the movies always wins.
great talk
Hugely interesting lecture.
Thanks for the information...l always wondered why people enjoy gambling?🙄 Quite pessimistic endeavors!
very interesting lecture
This guy is great!...
Loved his lectures
By the way this guy is great professor
omg this class was really great hahaha xD remembered when i was in college, does anyone knows if they have MA counseling or education psychology classes? because I'm really interested on apllying to that program. Thank you
I'm a slot attendant and I see this every day people who gamble on the daily basis have a illness it's really sad to see
Yeah I feel for you guys 😂, you guys have to deal with us type alot.. I just had to self ban myself because it is such a strong euphoria winning but losing sets a much different mood and I had to get out of that paradigm..
May God help us overcome this addiction cause it’s ruining our lives 😞
I do sports betting but found a secret way to win in the long run .
Put it in your mom's ass@@kevinwilson3337
Will power mm not so simple . Imagine you have a blinding headache and you have Tylenol in your medicine cabinet . Can will power take away the pain or will the Tylenol work faster. The gambler has a pain deep in him or her than only gambling relieves, it takes more than will power to deal with that pain
Spot on
J ML yea will power won’t hear a cut either and probably won’t make you instantly forget about the gambling rush, but it can allow you to actually stop yourself from going and deal with whatever your feeling.
Most people’s problem is boredom. Solve that and the addiction will lose its grip.
J ML no matter how much you win you will still feel like a lose. The win eases the pain but creates the desire to gamble more. It damages your brain
I use that same Chipotle burrito conversion!
I learned a lot here.
@asymmetricaltimeJ It is a preview for PSYC 207. This topic will be offered in 2012.
Addiction is crazy.. I know that my odds of winning anything is basically 0 but I still put my money in and lose it most of the time.. I know it is the worst thing in the world yet I still do it 😳 you can know all the facts yet still go through with it
I’m so sorry
Its fuckin dopamine and serotonin Rush..brain chemistry..dont be impulsive
it would change his life more if he lost all the $ 70.000 rather than doubling it
exactly
Very good video
Thanks bro i went to a casino on my birthday and never stopped lol
Someone said it's not the losing but the winning that ruins you, when you gambling your actually winning your way to losing, small wins get you more addicted till eventually you dip back into your own money again and again and again
Facts
I stopped gambling but went back again but I’m fighting it even harder…
I see gambling as a way to relax and have fun. Now it is even possible to play casino games without a house advantage, so even more addicting. For example you can play roulette with no zero, which is pretty unusual to see. I usually only play dozens strategies like the "Super Double Dozen" strategy, where the odds are good for winning, or another strategy for single dozens with higher payouts.
BEST PROF AT UBC PSYCH
You must have missed the part at the end about the person suing the casino.
it 2023 and this video only has 310000 views .i live in south africa and many casino are opening up
I realized I had a gambling problem today when I walked in with 100 dollars was up to 500 dollars and walked out with 80 dollars.
That is a big problem. Should have bet the other 80. Nobody wins betting scared.
i think to win gambling on horses you need the right mentality..playing roulette and playing cards i don't know anything about ..only about 5% of people have the raw ability to win backing horses but of that 5% few have the right mentality.....i would always advice anyone DONT GAMBLE you are long odds to succeed
@@etiennedegaulle3817 lol I went to Vegas with 500 and left with 100.. if only I would of tried
You're not a full blown addict though. Or you would have walked out with $0 dollars, like me 🤬😡😱😭😢
I've sat there 4 hours after putting in 100 on roulette made it up to 1000 and down to 5$ then back up to 400 then down some back up a few hundred then all down to 0. Only lost 100 of my own money but played with thousands of dollars winning and losing it back with the casinos money
Gambling has two definitions.
1. Betting on an event for sport.
2. Making an assumed risk and betting on that risk.
If you do no. 1, enjoy it but don't overdo it.
If you do no.2, you will find out sooner or later if you have the math skills and discipline to succeed.
15:35 when it gets real
How can someone be assisted if he or she had been seriously addicted by gambling please?
I’m my opinion there is no such thing as responsible gambling, maybe for some people with very strong self control and will power, but for a lot of people once you pop you can’t stop, it hypnotises you sends you into a trance and they are designed to do that, to keep you there, so better not to start at all especially when it comes to pokie machines, u can go in there planning on spending five dollars and spend 500 easy. Trick is to make a decision to not play them and stand by it, think about the pain it causes you, Our mind forgets the pain it causes alot of the time and just thinks about the good times it’s self destructive behaviour decide you aren’t going to do it any more and you will never win your losses back, let it go, cuz a win is a loss in pokies anyway and stay away from that environment, and don’t even put one dollar through, Ive had a problem with pokie machines and now I’ve decided to not go into clubs and pubs or drink alchohol or do things that trigger me to want to play, and I’m much happier that way
The way that all these gambling venues deceive people out of their money is nothing short of psychological extortion/torture.
Lost more money than I care to admit. I’m always hoping to get the grand jackpot and gambled away my needed money.
On television and commercials they are always showing slot machines and casinos!!
the one i saw was a life saving on red and lost
After the lecture this guy went home and tried to hit a 10 team parlay and hoping he wouldn’t need to give another lecture again.
The varied response is a huge hook because the next play could be a hit. Varied response works on lab rats as well as humans. It's very interesting.
Gambling destroyed my life too. I played Craps for two years. I heard it has best odd to player. i lost almost 50 grands in two years in craps and black jack. some assholes convinced me that I could control the dice or beat the house by progressive betting. I ended up as a loser unfortunately.
Search Jesús 🙏😑
I lost $6666 in craps.
Dice were against me. Still need to pay the debt bcz I bet on credit
50% of the class has been to Mascu?
I didn't even know that was a place until now.
I m watching this because i am tired of feeling bad after loosing . My head feels is going to explode . I want to feel like before less stress and live a normal life and dint spend my hard earn money.
I thought I was the only one who imagined amounts of money as quantities of Chipotle burritos haha (17:10)
I'm addicted to alcohol, sex, cocaine, ecstasy, high-limit gambling, cigarettes and also binge eating. Actually also caffeine as well. I'm usually going very deep on multiple addictions every day when I have off work. Not sure when or how I'll stop.
You'll stop when you can no longer get sex due to being homeless and stank.🤢🤮
Look like your here looking for help with your addiction and for that I applaud 👏 you
Does anyone know how to remove my pleasure sensors
Focus on the pain sensors
True story. I once saw an old Italian man press the play button on a poker machine as he was clutching a cheap statuette of the Virgin Mary. So the statue was "hitting" the button as some sort of conduit of religious intervention.
😥 Tragic
I play poker. I win more than i lose. BUT!!! I listen and learn. This info will help my hourly win rate.
In a perfect world an individual could walk into a casino and risk a couple twenties once in a great while and be entertained briefly and not face financial ruin, but unfortunately that is not the real world and people are drawn in by a very devious well organized institution which is well versed on human weaknesses and knows how to exploit those weakness.
The various governments who promote this reprobate industry and take a slice from the pie are no better and are not working toward the best interests of the citizenry.
There is no winning unless you own a casino, otherwise stay away from this parasitic enterprise and find another way to be entertained and keep your money in your own bank account.
Casino Gambling can be 'fun' - as long as you are in a group, socialising and interacting with each other. If you have the urge to gamble on your own then you have a problem, because it is the most boring experience in the world. Solitary gamblers have something else going on in their lives that is driving them to gamble as an 'escape'
While you at it why dont you tell Crack heads to stay out the cracks house and that alcoholic to stay away from the bar?
We are a society of gamblers. If you don't play in a casino perhaps you have your 401K or retirement account (which is another kind of gambling) and the list goes on. I'm a gambler and I have ups and downs! The secret is never bet more than you can afford to lose.
I see why you perceive the 401k as a form of gambling since it goes up and down in stock funds. Yet if one continues to contribute to it and don’t watch the ups and downs, over time it will grow nicely.
At a certain time in history, being assigned to a wrong table would drive a croupier to destitution.
From this talk people gamble because they think they are going to win because of near misses etc but logically people should know that they will not win in the long run. Something is really messed up with these people or maybe everyone is susceptible under certain conditions. Its interesting why people would act in such as irrational way.