Journal Articles
Mou, C, Kailasnathan, SA, Ferguson, E, Tunney, R, James, R (Accepted for publication) Measuring gambling harm in self-reported questionnaires: a scoping review, Harm Reduction Journal, 23(1), DOI: 10.1186/s12954-025-01352-3.
Houghton, S, Boy, F, Bradley, A,
James, RJE, Wardle, H, Dymond, S (2025)
Adapting in times of crisis: how social media marketing of gambling changed in response to major shifts in the gambling landscape,
Information, Communication & Society, pp.1-17, ISSN: 1369-118X. DOI:
10.1080/1369118x.2025.2572025.
Czakó, A, Potenza, MN, Hodgins, DC, Yu, SM, Wu, AMS, Jiménez-Murcia, S, Bowden-Jones, H, King, D, Billieux, J, Bőthe, B, Stein, DJ, _, _, Demetrovics, Z (2025)
Research priorities in gambling: Findings of a large-scale expert study,
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 14(3), pp.1222-1249, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI:
10.1556/2006.2025.00072.
Smith, SL, Georgopoulos, V, Ifesemen, OS,
James, R, Ferguson, E, Wakefield, RJ, Wilson, D, Buckley, P, Platts, D, Ledbury, S, Choy, E, Pickles, T, Rutter-Locher, Z, Kirkham, B, Walsh, DA, McWilliams, DF (2025)
Validity and contributions to pain from the central aspects of pain questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis,
PAIN Reports, 10(4), pp.e1295-e1295, DOI:
10.1097/pr9.0000000000001295.
Whelan, E, Morvannou, A, Ma, X,
James, R, Clohessy, T, Turel, O (2025)
Examining the impact of mobile gambling harm minimisation features: a dualistic model of passion perspective,
European Journal of Information Systems, 34(4), pp.665-688, ISSN: 0960-085X. DOI:
10.1080/0960085x.2024.2396964.
Monson, A,
James, RJE, Wootton, RE, Newall, P (2025)
Illusion of control or passive superstition? A comparison of two explanations for irrational gambling beliefs,
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 39(4), pp.389-396, ISSN: 0893-164X. DOI:
10.1037/adb0001036.
Mou, C, Ferguson, E, Tunney, RJ,
James, RJE (2025)
Assessing the factor structure of the problem and pathological gambling measure (PPGM),
International Gambling Studies, 25(2), pp.307-322, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI:
10.1080/14459795.2025.2481846.
Newall, P, Hayes, T, Weiss-Cohen, L,
James, RJE, Byrne, CA, Muggleton, N (2025)
Could the provision of multiple game themes be a neglected gambling product structural characteristic? Results of an online simulated gambling task,
International Gambling Studies, 25(2), pp.366-385, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI:
10.1080/14459795.2025.2488868.
James, RJE and Hitcham, L (2025)
Commentary on Sun and Tang: Measurement assessment and validity in problematic smartphone use,
Addiction, 120(4), pp.642-644, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.16764.
James, RJE, Tillsley, JE, Hitcham, L, Mou, C, Kim, H, Tunney, RJ (2025)
Disordered gambling, or dependence and consequences: a bifactor exploratory structural equation model analysis of the problem gambling severity index,
Addiction Research & Theory, 33(2), pp.122-133, ISSN: 1606-6359. DOI:
10.1080/16066359.2024.2352094.
Baker-Frampton, R, Dragomir, D,
James, R, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2025)
Evaluating a Womens’ Residential Treatment Centre for Gambling Harm,
Journal of Drugs Addiction & Therapeutics, 6(1), ISSN: 2754-4907. DOI:
10.47363/jdat/2025(6)159.
Roberts, A, Rogers, J, Petrovskaya, E, Ashton, A, Beck, E, Ritchie, C, Turnbull, P, Johal, G,
James, R, Parente, T, Boyce, C, Chamberlain, SR, Bowden‐Jones, H, Wong, P, Sharman, S (2024)
Investigating gambling‐related suicide,
Addiction, 119(12), pp.2223-2225, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.16668.
Ferguson, E, Dawe‐Lane, E, Ajayi, O, Osikomaiya, B, Mills, R, Okubanjo, A (2024)
The importance of need‐altruism and kin‐altruism to blood donor behaviour for black and white people,
Transfusion Medicine, 34(2), pp.112-123, ISSN: 0958-7578. DOI:
10.1111/tme.13032.
Newall, P, Allami, Y, Andrade, M, Ayton, P, Baker‐Frampton, R, Bennett, D, Browne, M, Bunn, C, Bush‐Evans, R, Chen, S, Collard, S, De Jans, S, Derevensky, J, Dowling, NA, Dymond, S, Froude, A, Goyder, E, Heirene, RM, Hing, N, Hudders, L, Hunt, K,
James, RJE, Li, E, Ludvig, EA, Marionneau, V, McGrane, E, Merkouris, SS, Orford, J, Parrado‐González, A, Pryce, R, Rockloff, M, Romild, U, Rossi, R, Russell, AMT, Singmann, H, Quosai, TS, Stark, S, Suomi, A, Swanton, TB, Talberg, N, Thoma, V, Torrance, J, Tulloch, C, van Holst, RJ, Walasek, L, Wardle, H, West, J, Wheaton, J, Xiao, LY, Young, MM, Bellringer, ME, Sharman, S, Roberts, A (2024)
‘No evidence of harm’ implies no evidence of safety: Framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research,
Addiction, 119(2), pp.391-396, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.16369.
Xiao, LY, Newall, P,
James, RJE (2024)
To screen, or not to screen: An experimental comparison of two methods for correlating video game loot box expenditure and problem gambling severity,
Computers in Human Behavior, 151, pp.108019-108019, ISSN: 0747-5632. DOI:
10.1016/j.chb.2023.108019.
Newall, PWS,
James, RJE, Maynard, OM (2024)
How does the phrasing of house edge information affect gamblers’ perceptions and level of understanding? A Registered Report,
Addiction Research & Theory, 32(1), pp.1-9, ISSN: 1606-6359. DOI:
10.1080/16066359.2023.2195171.
Houghton, S, Boy, F, Bradley, A,
James, R, Wardle, H, Dymond, S (2023)
Tracking online searches for gambling activities and operators in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Google Trends™ analysis,
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(4), pp.983-991, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI:
10.1556/2006.2023.00055.
Hitcham, L, Jackson, H, J.E. James, R (2023)
The relationship between smartphone use and smartphone addiction: An examination of logged and self-reported behavior in a pre-registered, two-wave sample,
Computers in Human Behavior, 146, pp.107822-107822, ISSN: 0747-5632. DOI:
10.1016/j.chb.2023.107822.
James, RJE and Ferguson, E (2023)
Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe,
The Journal of Pain, 24(6), pp.1104-1115, ISSN: 1526-5900. DOI:
10.1016/j.jpain.2023.03.006.
James, RJE, Dixon, G, Dragomir, M-G, Thirlwell, E, Hitcham, L (2023)
Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review,
Addictive Behaviors, 137, pp.107503-107503, ISSN: 0306-4603. DOI:
10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107503.
Tunney, RJ and
James, RJE (2022)
Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing,
Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), 220102, DOI:
10.1098/rsos.220102.
James, R, Walsh, D, Ferguson, E (2022)
Using heterogeneity in disease to understand the relationship between health and personality,
Psychology, Health & Medicine, 27(7), pp.1582-1595, ISSN: 1354-8506. DOI:
10.1080/13548506.2021.1903057.
Whiteford, S, Hoon, AE,
James, R, Tunney, R, Dymond, S (2022)
Quantile regression analysis of in-play betting in a large online gambling dataset,
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6, pp.100194-100194, ISSN: 2451-9588. DOI:
10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100194.
Haybatollahi, SM,
James, RJE, Fernandes, G, Valdes, A, Doherty, M, Zhang, W, Walsh, DA, Ferguson, E (2022)
Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach,
Pain Practice, 22(2), pp.210-221, ISSN: 1530-7085. DOI:
10.1111/papr.13082.
James, RJE and Bradley, A (2021)
The Use of Social Media in Research on Gambling: a Systematic Review,
Current Addiction Reports, 8(2), pp.235-245, DOI:
10.1007/s40429-021-00364-w.
Akin-Akinyosoye, K,
James, RJE, McWilliams, DF, Millar, B, das Nair, R, Ferguson, E, Walsh, DA (2021)
The Central Aspects of Pain in the Knee (CAP-Knee) questionnaire; a mixed-methods study of a self-report instrument for assessing central mechanisms in people with knee pain,
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(6), pp.802-814, ISSN: 1063-4584. DOI:
10.1016/j.joca.2021.02.562.
Sallis, A, Gold, N, Agbebiyi, A,
James, RJE, Berry, D, Bonus, A, Vlaev, I, Chadborn, T (2021)
Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England,
Journal of Public Health, 43(1), pp.e92-e99, ISSN: 1741-3842. DOI:
10.1093/pubmed/fdz134.
Bradley, A and
James, RJE (2021)
Defining the key issues discussed by problematic gamblers on web-based forums: a data-driven approach,
International Gambling Studies, 21(1), pp.59-73, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI:
10.1080/14459795.2020.1801793.
Flayelle, M, Castro-Calvo, J, Vögele, C, Astur, R, Ballester-Arnal, R, Challet-Bouju, G, Brand, M, Cárdenas, G, Devos, G, Elkholy, H, Grall-Bronnec, M,
James, RJE, Jiménez-Martínez, M, Khazaal, Y, Valizadeh-Haghi, S, King, DL, Liu, Y, Lochner, C, Steins-Loeber, S, Long, J, Potenza, MN, Rahmatizadeh, S, Schimmenti, A, Stein, DJ, Tóth-Király, I, Tunney, R, Wang, Y, Zhai, ZW, Maurage, P, Billieux, J (2020)
Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages,
Computers in Human Behavior, 111, pp.106410-106410, ISSN: 0747-5632. DOI:
10.1016/j.chb.2020.106410.
Wardle, H, Banks, J, Bebbington, P, Blank, L, Bowden Jones OBE, H, Bramley, S, Bunn, C, Casey, E, Cassidy, R, Chamberlain, SR, Close, J, Critchlow, N, Dobbie, F, Downs, C, Dymond, S, Fino, E, Goyder, E, Gray, C, Griffiths, M, Grindrod, P, Hogan, L, Hoon, A, Hunt, K,
James, R, John, B, Manthorpe, J, McCambridge, J, McDaid, D, McKee, M, McManus, S, Moss, A, Norrie, C, Nutt, DJ, Orford, J, Pryce, R, Purves, R, Reith, G, Roberts, A, Roberts, E, Roderique-Davies, G, Rogers, J, Rogers, RD, Sharman, S, Strang, J, Tunney, R, Turner, J, West, R, Zendle, D (2020)
Open letter from UK based academic scientists to the secretaries of state for digital, culture, media and sport and for health and social care regarding the need for independent funding for the prevention and treatment of gambling harms,
BMJ, pp.m2613-m2613, DOI:
10.1136/bmj.m2613.
James, RJE and Ferguson, E (2020)
The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model,
Psychological Medicine, 50(10), pp.1663-1671, ISSN: 0033-2917. DOI:
10.1017/s0033291719001673.
McWilliams, DF, Rahman, S,
James, RJE, Ferguson, E, Kiely, PDW, Young, A, Walsh, DA (2019)
Disease activity flares and pain flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae,
BMC Rheumatology, 3(1), 49, DOI:
10.1186/s41927-019-0100-9.
Bradley, A and
James, RJE (2019)
How are major gambling brands using Twitter?,
International Gambling Studies, 19(3), pp.451-470, ISSN: 1445-9795. DOI:
10.1080/14459795.2019.1606927.
James, RJE, Walsh, DA, Ferguson, E (2019)
Trajectories of pain predict disabilities affecting daily living in arthritis,
British Journal of Health Psychology, 24(3), pp.485-496, ISSN: 1359-107X. DOI:
10.1111/bjhp.12364.
Bradley, A and
James, RJE (2019)
Web Scraping Using R,
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(3), pp.264-270, ISSN: 2515-2459. DOI:
10.1177/2515245919859535.
McWilliams, DF, Rahman, S,
James, RJE, Ferguson, E, Kiely, PDW, Young, A, Walsh, DA (2019)
073 Disease activity flares and pain flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort: characteristics, antecedants and sequelae,
Rheumatology, 58(Supplement_3), kez106.072, ISSN: 1462-0324. DOI:
10.1093/rheumatology/kez106.072.
James, RJE, O’Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2019)
Gambling on Smartphones: A Study of a Potentially Addictive Behaviour in a Naturalistic Setting,
European Addiction Research, 25(1), pp.30-40, ISSN: 1022-6877. DOI:
10.1159/000495663.
James, RJE, Walsh, DA, Ferguson, E (2018)
General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer,
BMC Medicine, 16(1), 51, DOI:
10.1186/s12916-018-1031-9.
Tunney, RJ and
James, RJE (2017)
Criteria for conceptualizing behavioural addiction should be informed by the underlying behavioural mechanism,
Addiction, 112(10), pp.1720-1721, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.13831.
James, RJE and Tunney, RJ (2017)
The relationship between gaming disorder and addiction requires a behavioral analysis,
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6(3), pp.306-309, ISSN: 2062-5871. DOI:
10.1556/2006.6.2017.045.
James, RJE, O'Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2017)
Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis,
British Journal of Psychology, 108(3), pp.608-625, ISSN: 0007-1269. DOI:
10.1111/bjop.12226.
James, RJE and Tunney, RJ (2017)
The need for a behavioural analysis of behavioural addictions,
Clinical Psychology Review, 52, pp.69-76, ISSN: 0272-7358. DOI:
10.1016/j.cpr.2016.11.010.
James, RJE, Dubey, I, Smith, D, Ropar, D, Tunney, RJ (2016)
The Latent Structure of Autistic Traits: A Taxometric, Latent Class and Latent Profile Analysis of the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient,
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(12), pp.3712-3728, ISSN: 0162-3257. DOI:
10.1007/s10803-016-2897-z.
James, RJE, O’Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2016)
Loss of Control as a Discriminating Factor Between Different Latent Classes of Disordered Gambling Severity,
Journal of Gambling Studies, 32(4), pp.1155-1173, DOI:
10.1007/s10899-016-9592-z.
James, RJE, O'Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2016)
Sociodemographic predictors of latent class membership of problematic and disordered gamblers,
Addictive Behaviors Reports, 3, pp.61-69, ISSN: 2352-8532. DOI:
10.1016/j.abrep.2016.04.004.
James, RJE, O’Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2016)
Why are Some Games More Addictive than Others: The Effects of Timing and Payoff on Perseverance in a Slot Machine Game,
Frontiers in Psychology, 7, DOI:
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00046.
James, RJE, O'Malley, C, Tunney, RJ (2014)
On the latent structure of problem gambling: a taxometric analysis,
Addiction, 109(10), pp.1707-1717, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.12648.
