Irresistible

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 three hours each day using our smartphones Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans.In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today s products are irresistible Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist.By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good to improve how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, and set boundaries between work and play and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well being, and the health and happiness of our children. Read Irresistible by Adam Alter – kino-fada.fr Q Why are the world s greatest public technocrats also its greatest private technophobes Can you imagine the outcry if religious leaders refused to let their children practice religion Many experts both within and beyond the world of tech have shared similar perspectives with me Several video game designers told me they avoided the notoriously addictive game World of Warcraft an exercise addiction psychologist called fitness watches dangerous the dumbest things in the world and swore she Q Why are the world s greatest public technocrats also its greatest private technophobes Can you imagine the outcry if religious leaders refused to let their children practice religion Many experts both within and beyond the world of tech have shared similar perspectives with me Several video game designers told me they avoided the notoriously addictive...Take it with a huge grain of salt There are some fun cocktail party facts and some reasonable suggestions for changing your own habits, which are fine as hey, why not try it, it might work for you It s just not much good as scientific evidence proves that For example Experimental group improved by a dramatic 40%, but control group improved by only a paltry 30% which actually meant that group A improved by 5 points out of 50, and B by 3 points out of 50 which is probably a Take it with a huge grain of salt There are some fun cocktail party facts and some reasonable suggestions for changing your own habits, which are fine as hey, why not try it, it might work for you It s just not much good as scientific evidence proves that For example Experimental group improved by a dramatic 40%, but control group improved by only a paltry 30% which actually meant that group A improved by 5 points out of 50, and B by 3 points out of 50 which is probably a statistical fluke, and even if not, it s certainly not a scientifically interesting difference Argh Also, it s kinda funny that most of the book warns against the dangers of overusing artificial metrics Then, the last chapter suggests fixing our problems with gamification i.e artificial ov...I read as far as the fifth chapter in Alter s book and learned a few interesting things along the way However, based on what I did read, I found the book s subtitle inaccurate Huge amounts of the first four chapters are dedicated to substance and behavioural addictions, in general, not addictive technology per se There was interesting information about the importance of context or environment in addiction Alter provides the example of veterans of the Vietnam war, many of whom used heroin w I read as far as the fifth chapter in Alter s book and learned a few interesting things along the way However, based on what I did read, I found the book s subtitle inaccurate Huge amounts of the first four chapters are dedicated to substance and behavioural addictions, in general, not addictive technology per se There was interesting information about the importance of context or environment in addiction Alter provides the example of veterans of the Vietnam war, many of whom used heroin while overseas but who did not return to the U.S addicted, as they had now been removed from the context, conditions, and associations in which the drug use occurred There was also some interesting material about behaviours including repetitive actions known scientifically as stereotypies that accompany methamphetamine addictions and dopamine medications prescribed for Parkinson s disease Some Parkinson s patients...Having had a few days to think about the implications of this book, it rather confirms what some of us already know and most are in deep denial about social media is the realm of the shallow, the ill informed and the lazy Critical thinking skills not welcome Learning and intellectual curiosity not welcome Knowledge not required Honesty and truth always in question It is our brave new world s soma It s the drug that does effect our brains and keep us addicted to nonsense and it s a huge Having had a few days to think about the implications of this book, it rather confirms what some of us already know and most are in deep denial about social media is the realm of the shallow, the ill informed and the lazy Critical thinking skills not welcome Learning and intellectual curiosity not welcome Knowledge not required Honesty and truth always in question It is our brave new world s soma It s the drug that does effect our brains and keep us addicted to nonsense and it s a huge waste of time We do not know those people behind the avatars the way we d like to thi...This is a gutless book Irresistible The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked purports to be an examination of contemporary media and their addictive qualities, yet very few of these pages explore any such ground Rather, Alter parades psychological experiment after psychological experiment after psychological experiment, one after another, again and again, mice pressing levers to receive the orgasm drug, pigeons pecking buttons for food pellets, kittens kept in dar This is a gutless book Irresistible The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked purports to be an examination of contemporary media and their addictive qualities, yet very few of these pages explore any such ground Rather, Alter parades psychological experiment after psychological experiment after psychological experiment, one after another, again and again, mice pressing levers to receive the orgasm drug, pigeons pecking buttons for food pellets, kittens kept in dark rooms before being put in cylinders with stripy patterns, and so on The reader it seems, is left to draw her own conclusions.Each time one of these laboratory ...Uma tima an lise do que torna muitas tecnologias viciantes Alter come a o livro explicando sobre v cio por causa dele me interessei pelo The Biology of Desire Why Addiction Is Not a Disease , para em seguida passar por como cada tecnologia desperta eles Como redes sociais, por exemplo, est o todos os dias rodando testes A B justamente para aumentar nossa reten o nas plataformas E como praticamente qualquer CEO das empresas de tecnologia n o deixam os filhos chegarem perto de celulares, ta Uma tima an lise do que torna muitas tecnologias viciantes Alter come a o livro explicando sobre v cio por causa dele me interessei pelo The Biology of Desire Why Addiction Is Not a Disease , para em seguida passar por como cada tecnologia desperta eles Como redes sociais, por exemplo, est o todos os dias rodando testes A B justamente para aumentar nossa reten o nas plataformas E como praticamente qualquer CEO das empresas de tecnologia...My takeaway rhetorical question does it make sense for a book about technological addiction to be published as an eBook as well as print Followup will taking the time to post it to a social media book review website prove or disprove the book s byline I went in a believer and left a skeptic Too many pat conclusions when the research and studies demandsinvestigations This felt too much like a re...This book is absolutely, astoundingly, brain dripping out of my ear, dreadful Once , a researcher explores digital media and with little evidence and a lot of hyperbole locates The addict in all of us Supposedly, online pornography, gaming and mobile phones have made all of us addicts.There is no understanding ...This book is essential reading I can t stop thinking about it or talking about it I particularly appreciate the way the book breaks down what appears to be a wild lack of willpower I m looking at myself into its component parts of behavioral addiction I am thinking differently about the consequences of my screen time and my children s and about the approaches I take to curb my excess Well written, well researched, well timed I will be giving out many copies of this book to family and f This book is essential reading I can t stop thinking about it or talking about it I particularly appreciate the way the book breaks down what appears to be a wild lack o...Excellent overview of addiction itself No, there is no addictive personality but rather we are all susceptible to addiction Environment, marketing and our own desire to take the easy road play into it An excellent read for anyone who wants to understand addiction and our willingne...

• English
• 14 February 2018
Adam Alter
• Hardcover
• 368 pages
• 1594206643
• Adam Alter
• Irresistible