2017年4月27日 · Alter, whose recent book — Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, argues that there’s a worrisome rise in behavioral addiction to our...

Adam Alter is a marketing author [1] who also teaches at New York University Stern School of Business. [2][3] Adam moved with his family from South Africa to Australia in the 1980s. [4] Alter obtained a scholarship to study actuarial science at the University of New South Wales, but switched to psychology and law. [5]

Overcoming intuition: metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. Missing the trees for the forest: a construal level account of the illusion of explanatory depth. Cultural sharing in a...

2018年3月1日 · In Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at New York University, combines traditional business and psychology research with an investigation of modern addiction engineering.

Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Adam’s academic research focuses on judgment and decision-making and social psychology, with a particular interest in the sometimes surprising effects of subtle cues in ...

2017年3月21日 · His most recent work, Irresistible (2017), examines the troubling modern phenomena of behavioral addictions, especially in regard to many of our digital technologies, such as Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, Fitbit, and email.

2018年3月6日 · 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.

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked Adam Alter 368 pages • first pub 2017 ( editions )

Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Robert Stansky Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department.

2017年3月13日 · Technology is designed to be addictive, offering gratification that's similar to that of drug abuse or gambling. Author Adam Alter says a new frontier could soon provide another escape from ...