Irresistible
by Adam Alter
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Alter examines how technology exploits the same hooks as gambling, variable rewards, social approval, escalating goals. Behavioural addiction is a designed feature, not a personal failing.
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It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow and Flow.
It’s picked up by The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
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Alter draws on Kahneman's System 1 on addictive technologies.
Alter contrasts addiction with Csikszentmihalyi's flow.
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Haidt references Alter's Irresistible to explain how devices are deliberately designed with addictive features that exploit adolescent vulnerability to social validation and variable reward schedules
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