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Irresistible : The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter (2017, Hardcover)

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"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take 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. Adam Alter's previous book, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave is available in paperback from Penguin.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206643
ISBN-13
9781594206641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229396311

Product Key Features

Book Title
Irresistible : the Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping US Hooked
Author
Adam Alter
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, Web / Social Media, Media Studies, Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Digital Media / General, Hardware / Mobile Devices, Psychopathology / Addiction, Applied Psychology
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Computers, Psychology, Social Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
17 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hm851.A437 2017
Reviews
"If you can't stop checking, clicking, surfing and liking, put your device down and read Adam Alter's Irresistible , an important, groundbreaking book about why we're addicted to technology, how we got here, and what we should do next." --Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Revolution and Thrive "Adam Alter's brilliant book is a necessary map for navigating a digitally connected world that's teeming with addictive temptations. It's also a crackerjack box of fascinating scientific discoveries on games, habits, and behaviors. I circled, starred, underlined, or wrote exclamation marks on basically every page." --Derek Thompson, Senior Editor at The Atlantic , and author of Hit Makers "A provocative, clearly written book that argues new technology causes new addictions." --Kevin Ashton, author of How to Fly a Horse
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-043481
Dewey Decimal
303.4833
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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