The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive

Tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to keep us returning to their products. But some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about how it is being used.

1843 Magazine
18 min readDec 19, 2018

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Photo: Artur Debat/Getty Images

By Ian Leslie

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