http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/the-dark-arts-of-attentional-design
Junk attention
Addiction by design
Compulsion
‘Public-sector applied psychology in the form of “libertarian paternalism,” is considered “autonomy threatening” when it uses implicit nudges. But don’t for-profit, hidden-brain nudges manipulate autonomy?’
“By spending a lot of money on one topic but not another, [it] can sort of create a publication bias,”
Source: Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened. – Vox
the adult brain is far more fertile than expected, and more than capable of sprouting the connections necessary for profound learning
Source: BBC – Future – The amazing fertility of the older mind
This is like the idea that most of us like cakes. When we open a refrigerator door multiple times and see the same cake, we will not be as motivated to eat like if we opened the refrigerator door multiple times, and each time see a different cake (i.e., be exposed to a variable reward)….The objective of introducing better “reward management” abilities was to ensure users spend more time on Facebook as the rewards they are exposed to after the new abilities were implemented are presumed to be larger than bef