Irresistible the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked
"Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction--an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of th...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. What is behavioral addiction and where did it come from?. The rise of behavioral addiction ; The addict in all of us ; The biology of behavioral addiction
- Part 2. The ingredients of behavioral addiction (or, How to engineer an addictive experience). Goals ; Feedback ; Progress ; Escalation ; Cliffhangers ; Social interaction
- Part 3. The future of behavioral addiction (and some solutions). Nipping addictions at birth ; Habits and architecture ; Gamification.
