Why We Become Addicted to Our Phones
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Why We Become Addicted to Our Phones

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Smartphone compulsion isn't a character flaw - it's the product of deliberate design.

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In a paper published in Science in 1948, B.F. Skinner described the results of experiments in which rats received food pellets from a lever
+In his 1938 book The Behavior of Organisms, B.F. Skinner described the results of experiments in which rats received food pellets from a

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