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#293 - Adam Alter - The Psychology Of Phone & Tech Addiction

Modern Wisdom

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Are We Moving Up the Hierarchy?

Social media is where the hack comes in from the social side. You can now tell you within one like how i feel about a post, he says. It's not the same as actually being at a particular point in a hierarchy and a or in a group, but it feels like it is. And so we keep behaving as though it is. We know that having 20 likes on a post does feel like a reward. If you're someone who, for a while, is being followed by a hundred people, you post something, it goes viral, and suddenly a thousand new people follow you,. That also feels like a jump up the hierarchy. Whether that's illusory doesn't actually

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