1:12 Behavior
Why You Check Without Deciding
Phones are hard to put down because unpredictable rewards condition the act of checking itself; the compulsion lives in the variable-reward schedule, not in any particular piece of content.
Source
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Claim this source supports
“Unpredictable-reward machine design sustains player engagement, grounding the slot-machine comparison as a design pattern.”
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