Resources

B.J. Fogg

B.J. Fogg on how computers can be designed to change beliefs and behaviors.

Jean Twenge

Jean Twenge on how smartphones and social media have reshaped a generation's mental health.

Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal's blueprint for building habit-forming products — and the ethics questions it raised.

Adam Alter

Adam Alter on the rise of behavioural addiction and the design patterns that drive it.

Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke on dopamine, compulsive overconsumption, and the case for abstinence.

Johann Hari

Johann Hari on why we can't pay attention and the forces systematically destroying our focus.

Catherine Price

Catherine Price on reclaiming your attention from your phone.

NPR Morning Edition · Michaeleen Doucleff

Anthropologist Natasha Dow Schull traces how four design features from video slot machines — solitude, bottomlessness, speed, and teasing — migrated into social media apps, and why they are especially harmful to children.

Tristan Harris

Framework for understanding addictive design as an engineering choice, not an accident.

Roy Baumeister

Wolfram Schultz

B.F. Skinner

Kostadin Kushlev

Przybylski et al.

Leon Festinger