Wendy Sue Slutske is an American psychologist and behavior geneticist known for her research on
alcohol use disorder,
gambling disorder
Problem gambling or ludomania is repetitive gambling behavior despite harm and negative consequences. Problem gambling may be diagnosed as a mental disorder according to ''DSM-5'' if certain diagnostic criteria are met. Pathological gambling is ...
, and other
addictive disorders. She is a professor and director of the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research at the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...
, where she has taught since 1997. In 2011, she received the
National Center for Responsible Gaming's Scientific Achievement Award in recognition of her gambling research.
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Living people
American women psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
Behavior geneticists
University of Missouri faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Minnesota alumni
American geneticists
American women geneticists
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
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