Adam Alter
8 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adam Alter · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019
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Alter: Inactive smartphones on tables diminish conversation quality between strangers
“There's this amazing study showing that if you sit across from someone else, and there's a smartphone on the table, even if it's inert, it's not actually being used. The conversation that you have with that person, if that person is a stranger, will be diminis…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Alter: Defending against addictive design is a historically unprecedented challenge
“The only reason we're having this discussion was because there are people out there today who are so good at designing products who have such great teams of behavioral experts they've put together. That we need to discuss how to react against those products, h…”
Jan 2, 2019
Alter: Modern digital media eradicates traditional stopping rules
“One of the big trends I think in, in media today is the eradication of stopping rules. So you think about the way we consume media in the whole of the twenties century, everything had a natural endpoint, or at least the suggestion of an endpoint. Books have ch…”
Jan 2, 2019
Alter: Stopping videos before cliffhangers prevents binge-watching
“You want to basically short-circuit these attempts to eradicate stopping cues. You stop watching five minutes before the end of the episode, before the cliffhanger arrives, and then every time you watch from the last five minutes of one episode to the last fiv…”