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Ever caught yourself doomscrolling your life away? Refreshing the YouTube homepage over and over? Habitually checking your phone like a lovesick peasant awaiting a letter from o'er yonder?
Welcome to the first episode of Psychology I.R.L! Today, we're taking a look at the concept of operant conditioning - what it is, how it works, and crucially, how it's being used to keep us glued to our screens, swiping our lives away.
References/Further Reading:
5:26 - Skinner, B. F. (1938). The behavior of organisms: an experimental analysis.
32:49 - Lindström, B., Bellander, M., Schultner, D. T., Chang, A., Tobler, P. N., & Amodio, D. M. (2021). A computational reward learning account of social media engagement. Nature Communications, 12, Article 1802. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19607-x
33:07 - Crone, E. A., & Konijn, E. A. (2018). Media use and brain development during adolescence. Nature Communications, 9, Article 588. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03126-x
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