Education
| 2017 – 2021 | Ph.D. Psychology, Carleton University |
| 2015 – 2017 | M.A. Psychology, Carleton University |
| 2011 – 2015 | B.Sc. Honours Psychology, Carleton University |
Research Interests
Samantha Hollingshead is a former Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Michael Wohl. Generally, Samantha’s primary research interest is in the area of responsible gambling. Specifically, her research focuses on examining the effectiveness of various responsible gambling strategies (e.g., monetary limit setting, pop-up messages during play, educational tools) in order to determine which strategies can best be used to reduce and prevent disordered gambling.
For her Ph.D, she assessed how casino loyalty program (i.e., rewards programs whereby gamblers receive perks or “points” for spending money gambling) membership may influence the attitudes and behaviours of gamblers. Additionally, she wished to better understand the potential responsible gambling utility of loyalty programs and how they can be used to facilitate responsible gambling among their members.
Selected Publications
Wohl, M. J., Davis, C. G., & Hollingshead, S. J. (2017). How much have you won or lost? Personalized behavioral feedback about gambling expenditures regulates play. Computers in Human Behavior, 70, 437-445. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.025
Wohl, M. J. A., Salmon, M. M., Hollingshead, S. J., & Kim, H. S. (2017). An examination of the relationship between social casino gaming and gambling: The bad, the ugly, and the good. Journal of Gambling Issues. doi: 10.4309/jgi.2017.35.4
Kim, H. S., Hollingshead, S. J., & Wohl, M. J. (2017). Who spends money to play for free? Identifying who makes micro-transactions on social casino games (and why). Journal of Gambling Studies, 33, 525-538. doi: 10.1007/s10899-016-9626-6
Hollingshead, S. J., Kim, H. S., Wohl, M. J. A., & Derevensky, J. L. (2016). The social casino gaming-gambling link: Motivation for playing social casino games determines whether self-reported gambling increases or decreases among disordered gamblers. Journal of Gambling Issues, 52-67. doi: 10.4309/jgi.2016.33.4
Selected Conference Presentations
Hollingshead, S. J., Wohl, M. J. A., & Santesso, D. (April, 2018). Does Pop-up Message Content Matter? An Examination of the Effectiveness of Informing Gamblers about their Monetary Losses on Player Limit Adherence. Poster to be presented at the 2018 Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference, Banff, Alberta.
Hollingshead, S. J., Wohl, M. J. A., Dupuis, D., & Tabri, N. (2018, March). Empathetic Collective Angst Promotes Support for Policies that Protect the Future Vitality of a Victimized Group (even if those Policies Discriminate Against the In-Group). Poster to be presented at the 2018 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hollingshead, S. J., Wohl, M. J. A., & Davis, C. G. (2017, April). Providing players with accurate information about monetary loss over a three month span reduces subsequent gambling. Poster presented at the Responsible Gambling Council’s Discovery Conference, Toronto, Ontario.
*Hollingshead, S. J., Kim, H. S., Wohl, M. J. A., & Derevensky, J. (2016, June). Motivation for playing social casino games predicts whether gambling increases or decreases. Poster to be presented at the 16th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Las Vegas, Nevada. *Winner of Best Poster Award
Notable Awards
| 2017 – 2020 | Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) |
| 2016 | John Lyndhurst Kingston Memorial Scholarship – Carleton University |
| 2016 | Scientist Knowledge Translation Training Certificate, SickKids Learning Institute |
| 2015 | Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| 2015 | University Medal for Interfaculty Studies |