Real estate blog entries tagged with addiction by Jon Washburn (ActiveRain Corp)

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addiction: Operant Conditioning (Email & blog addiction) - 06/13/07 02:55 PM

Am I addicted to email? If not I am most definitely addicted to my rss reader. According to behavior psychologists I get the same type of rush or high when I receive a new email, or discover a new blog post in my rss feedreader, as gamblers get when they receive a slot machine payout or win a pot in poker. And this addiction is killing my productivity.
According to Michael Shanks, an archaeologist and a professor of design at Stanford University, "Primary conditioning mechanism" is the inclusion of relatively small payouts in slot machine gameplay. These small payouts provide positive … (6 comments)

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