About me
Dr. Carrie Shaw is RGC’s Principal Researcher and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Lethbridge. She brings over 16 years of research experience, and 13 years of gambling specific research, to her role at RGC. She also served as the Project Manager for the AGRI National Project (ANP) which undertook the first comprehensive prevalence and etiological investigation of gambling and problem gambling in Canada. Her PhD in Psychology and research to date are grounded in the area that interweaves health, cognition and individual difference psychology with psychometrics. Specifically, her research interests include cognitive and social individual differences, the role those individual difference factors play in erroneous belief formation and the role of erroneous beliefs in problem gambling. Dr. Shaw’s most recent publication: “Characteristics that differentiate online from land-based exclusive gamblers: Results from a national longitudinal study of gambling” (2024).