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Irresistible

The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

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Irresistible

Auteur(s): Adam Alter
Narrateur(s): Adam Alter
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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 audiobook, 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.

©2017 Adam Alter (P)2017 Penguin Audio
Histoire et culture Psychologie Psychologie et santé mentale Réseaux sociaux et création de contenu Santé mentale Sciences sociales Études des médias Technologie Santé IA et humanité Social Media Addiction Technology Addiction

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Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best-sellers David and Goliath and Outliers)

“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 best-selling author of Originals and Give and Take)

“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)

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Great book and provides some really interesting and valuable insight in to tech and how it’s become part of our everyday lives.

Well worth it

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I loved the book overall, but I’m giving it 4 stars as I wanted a bit more science behind the points the author raised

Liked the Message

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Besides how lovely it is to be read to by its Australian author, this book was engaging from start to finish. The many real life examples used to convey the nuance of today’s addictions and how they manifest were eye opening. In our rapidly changing and controversial world of social media, tech advances, and emerging virtual realities it’s refreshing to receive this well written and executed collection of objective research to gain knowledge and perspective.

A must listen/read for everyone.

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I wanted to read this book to help my two teens build screen boundaries. We all read this book and came away with a strategy and motivation to cut back on the tech.
Good info throughout, but the little real life supporting stories in it is what made it tough to put this book down. Very well written.

Everyone with a smart phone should read this.

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Great listen. It forces you to dig deep and challenge your own addictions and vices.

Check Yourself!

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an engrossing listen.. SEX, EXERCISE, LOVE, shopping, social media.. all dopamine factories, and we are simply human, designed to succumb.. or are we?

addiction, with all its variables

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Adam Alter makes me wonder if he used the same addictive tendencies of the human mind to captivate readers for this book. After obtaining a copy, I was able to finish it in under a week. It describes the methods of addiction and the function of the human mind that allows for it to happen, along with the technology and marketing that enables it.

almost.. addictive

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there is no knowledge that is not power. this book opened a whole new way of thinking to me.

wow

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The book alone was extremely interesting but the author reading it gave it a totally more relatable feeling.

Fantastic Book and Narrating

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If you like incentives to change your behaviour and those of your children, this is the book to do it...

A worrying look in the mirror...

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