{"id":15004,"date":"2019-07-10T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=15004"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:59:23","slug":"dopamine-and-tech-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=15004","title":{"rendered":"Dopamine and Tech addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, exploited a \u201cvulnerability in human psychology\u201d, explained Parker,<\/li>\n<li>Whenever someone likes or comments on a post or photograph, he said, \u201cwe\u2026 give you a little dopamine hit\u201d.\u00a0Facebook built upon a molecule.<\/li>\n<li>This dopamine process, at the basis of learning: it anticipates a reward to action and, if the reward is met, enables the behaviour to become a habit, or, if there\u2019s a discrepancy, to be adapted<\/li>\n<li>in Silicon Valley, where it is hailed as the secret sauce that makes an app, game or social platform \u201csticky\u201d \u2013 the investor term\u00a0for \u201cpotentially profitable\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s the known fun transmitter.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Most social media sites create irregularly timed rewards, Brooks wrote, a technique long employed by the makers of slot machines, based on the work of the American psychologist BF Skinner, who found that the strongest way to reinforce a learned behaviour in rats is to reward it on a random schedule. \u201cWhen a gambler feels favoured by luck, dopamine is released,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When that happens, we lose our willpower. Evolution has not prepared our brains for these drugs, so they become overwhelmed and screwed up. We are abusing a useful and necessary system. We shouldn\u2019t do it, even though we can.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe ethics test looks something like: should this dopamine override work in this app? Should this change human behaviours? Does this app encourage human flourishing? 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