Gamblification: The Rise of Nontraditional Betting Platforms
12:00 PM This presentation examines how betting platforms are transforming everyday thoughts, decisions, and events into potential gambling opportunities, effectively gamblifying the experience of ordinary life. By allowing wagers on everything from the weather to entertainment outcomes, elections, personal milestones, and virtually anything else imaginable, these platforms blur the line between observation and participation, converting our natural curiosities into bettable events. Participants will learn about: The economic rationale of prediction markets, gambling expansion, and its impacts The growth in normalizing gambling and its social implications The psychological impacts of gamblified features on games How these new forms of gambling are showing up in the treatment world, and Possible solutions for reducing harms.