Judson Brewer

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All In The Mind · Off the hook—how to have a better relationship with your smart phone · 13 Aug 2017 podcast

You know, if the last one was especially juicy, like we got a

you know, a nasty email or we got a really exciting email, our brain says, Oh, what's gonna happen next?

Where that's a great question.

Where does this craving for the distraction come from?

On a very basic level, it's just hijacking this very

normal

system that our brain thinks it's using to help it remember where food is.

So in that sense it's using the same process.

But if where it's coming from is is this evolution of

Of technology in the world and a lot of it comes from

People's persistent use of social media and

Et cetera, et cetera.

They've been relatively quiet on this front and

There's some evidence that is suggesting that they're using particular algorithms to kind of jack the dopamine system more.

So for example, some groups have found that if you bunch the likes, you know, the number of likes people get and give them at large bursts, then that tends to be more exciting for the brain.

So if somebody

you know, checks their Instagram or whatever and they get you know, they've gotten fifty likes in the last couple of minutes.

Uh, that's much more rewarding than if they're get like one or two and then two more later and then three more.

You know, if they kind of bunch all of those and then they give 'em all in a big splitz, uh, that seems to be a big spritz for the dopamine.

And the same is true, you know, like when you're loading up your

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