Table of Contents

The psychology of gambling: an overview. Adolescent gambling: an overview. Preliminary studies of adolescent fruit machine gambling and fruit machine addiction. The observational analysis of adolescent fruit machine gambling. The role of cognitive bias and skill in fruit machine gambling. The role of arousal and subjective moods in the maintenance of fruit machine gambling. Qualitative accounts and case studies of adolescent fruit machine addiction. Fruit machine gambling: the importance of structural characteristics. The treatment of pathological gambling. Fruit machine gambling: a final overview.