Gambling and Social Cognition: a Systematic Review

Hurel, Elodie; Challét-Bouju, Gaëlle; Bukowski, Nicolas; Eyzop, Emeline; Grall‐Bronnec, Marie

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“…148 This is because the ingestion of psychoactive substances alters neurocognitive functioning and may influence the evaluation of cognitive mechanisms underlying addiction in those with substance use disorders. 149 Finally, this study explores cognitive functions that are still underexplored, such as social cognition and metacognition 58,59 and will provide new results examining functions that have produced mixed results, such as flexibility or decision making. 53 This will permit a better understanding of common and specific neurocognitive patterns in several BAs and improve the understanding of the factors that trigger and maintain BAs and addictions in general.…”

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“…53 A review of the literature showed that attentional processes also seem to be biased, with an attentional bias towards gambling cues highlighted in GbD patients. 54 Additionally, some cognitive functions, such as social cognition (ie, all functions that permit the development and maintenance of relationships with others, from basic functions such as the detection of emotions to more complex ones such as the understanding of irony), [55][56][57] are still underexplored, 58,59 To our knowledge, only one study has explored social cognition in those with GbD and suggested specific alterations in nonverbal emotional processing. 60 Overall, despite the growing literature exploring neurocognition in those with GbD, further research is still needed.…”

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A Case–Control Study on Behavioral Addictions and Neurocognition: Description of the BANCO and BANCO2 Protocols

Hurel¹,

Grall‐Bronnec²,

Thiabaud³

et al. 2021

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Introduction: Only two behavioral addictions (BAs) are currently recognized in international classifications (gambling disorder: GbD; gaming disorder: GmD), while some of them await further investigation (food addiction: FA; sexual addiction: SA). Neurocognitive functioning is considered a risk factor for BAs. Research is quite abundant for GbD and highlights specific deficits in several cognitive functions. Nevertheless, grey areas still exist. The aim of this research programme is to investigate the neurocognitive profiles of patients presenting with various BAs and to establish parallels between different forms of BA to achieve a common addiction concept. Methods and Analysis: This research program is composed of two studies sharing the same methodology but focusing on different samples: the BANCO study aims to include 30 individuals with a GbD, whereas the BANCO2 study aims to include 30 individuals with a GmD, 30 with a SA, and 30 with a FA. Moreover, for each BA group, 30 healthy controls will be recruited, matched by sex, age and education level. Several cognitive tasks will be completed by participants. Cue reactivity and physiological responses, as well as clinical data regarding addiction characteristics and personality, will also be investigated. A composite score based on the cognitive tasks will be computed using principal component analysis (PCA). Overall cognitive performance and detailed performance on the different cognitive tasks will be compared between individuals with BAs and their matched healthy controls using linear models with random effects. Comparisons will also be made between BA groups to investigate specific alterations associated with each disorder. Discussion: The results of this research programme will impact both research and clinical areas by (i) providing new knowledge for discussions regarding the inclusion of BAs under the spectrum of addictive disorders; (ii) improving understanding of addiction mechanisms in general; (iii) providing clarity in the grey areas in neurocognitive research on BAs and improving the understanding of less studied BAs, (iv) guiding clinicians to propose therapeutic alternatives and complementary programmes.

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A Case–Control Study on Behavioral Addictions and Neurocognition: Description of the BANCO and BANCO2 Protocols

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Thiabaud³

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“…There is evidence of impaired cognitive empathy and emotion recognition problems in persons with eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa and BED (Kerr-Gaffney et al, 2019;Saure et al, 2022), and emotion dysregulation can trigger food addiction symptoms (Pivarunas & Conner, 2015). Multiple studies have reported significant deficits in affective and cognitive empathy in gambling behaviors (Hurel et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2022). A cross-generational study of video gamers revealed a negative association between the amount of time spent on games and cognitive empathy, as game playing reduces the need to infer mental states, thereby lessening the need to activate one's social brain (Shin & Ahn, 2013).…”

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Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use

Chatterjee,

Rai

2023

Cyberpsychology

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Problematic Internet Use (PIU), with its adverse health outcomes, is a clinically established phenomenon that is not formally diagnosable yet. The latest PIU research reveals differential psychological mechanisms underlying two types of Internet usage: social use (like using social media, chatrooms, and others) and non-social use (like live streaming, short-form video viewing, and others). Social forms of PIU often signal underlying interpersonal issues, including loneliness, attachment problems, and social skill deficits. In comparison, non-social usage might indicate emotion regulation problems, including emotion recognition deficits, poor cognitive empathy, and emotion suppression. A common developmental concomitant of these functions is the ability to mentalize, operationalized as Reflective Functioning (RF). While studies supporting the role of impaired RF in problematic social uses of the Internet abound, only a few studies relating RF deficits to non-social PIU are identifiable. Also, mentalizing is multidimensional, with cognitive and affective poles influencing emotion regulation and interpersonal functioning. Deficits in both poles of mentalizing have been differentially implicated in non-social and social PIU. Based on the latest empirical evidence in Internet-use problems, the multifaceted role of mentalizing could be meaningfully assimilated into a novel social-cognitive model of PIU. To that end, the current paper attempts to theoretically integrate affective and cognitive mentalizing, with its roles in emotion regulation and interpersonal functioning, into Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory of PIU. The theoretical model might have implications in developing a mentalization-based treatment modality for PIU that could train individuals in efficiently regulating emotions and navigating real-life social situations without resorting to an over-involvement with the virtual world.

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“…Gambling disorder (GD) has been defined as a persistent and recurrent problematic gambling pattern, which leads to clinical impairment or distress ( 1 ). According to the dual-processing model of decision-making ( 2 , 3 ), individuals with GD may have deficits in both the impulsive system and the reflective system ( 4 , 5 ), and imbalance between these two neurocognitive systems may lead them gradually to become addicted to gambling ( 6 , 7 ). This study aimed to address the knowledge gap regarding the association between empathy and GD from the neurocognitive perspective ( 8 ).…”

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Altered hierarchical organization between empathy and gambling networks in disordered gamblers

Zhou

He²,

Yuan³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundDespite the demonstrated association between empathy and gambling at the behavioral level, limited neuroimaging research on empathy and gambling disorder (GD) has been conducted. Whether and how the brain network of empathy and that of gambling interact in disordered gamblers has not been investigated. This study aimed to address this research gap by examining the hierarchical organizational patterns, in which the differences of causal interactions of these networks between disordered gamblers and healthy controls were revealed.MethodsResting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of 32 disordered gamblers and 56 healthy controls were included in the formal analysis. Dynamic causal modeling was used to examine the effective connectivity within and between empathy and gambling networks among all participants.ResultsAll participants showed significant effective connectivity within and between empathy and gambling networks. However, compared with healthy controls, disordered gamblers displayed more excitatory effective connectivity within the gambling network, the tendency to display more excitatory effective connectivity from the empathy network to the gambling network, and reduced inhibitory effective connectivity from the gambling network to the empathy network.ConclusionThe exploratory study was the first to examine the effective connectivity within and between empathy and gambling networks among disordered gamblers and healthy controls. These results provided insights into the causal relationship between empathy and gambling from the neuroscientific perspective and further confirmed that disordered gamblers show altered effective connectivity within and between these two brain networks, which may be considered to be a potential neural index for GD identification. In addition, the altered interactions between empathy and gambling networks may also indicate the potential targets for the neuro-stimulation intervention approach (e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation).

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Gambling and Social Cognition: a Systematic Review

Cited by 5 publications

References 87 publications

A Case–Control Study on Behavioral Addictions and Neurocognition: Description of the BANCO and BANCO2 Protocols

A Case–Control Study on Behavioral Addictions and Neurocognition: Description of the BANCO and BANCO2 Protocols

Behind the screens: Proposing a mentalization-based theoretical model of problematic Internet use

Altered hierarchical organization between empathy and gambling networks in disordered gamblers

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