Net Behaviour
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Covid-19: The psychology behind what makes contact-tracing apps effective
There are four key groups of app users, including conditional co-operators and free riders.
Stefan Volk, The Conversation
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What’s scarier than Uber and other apps collecting customer data? Using it to influence behaviour
The biggest digital platforms are collecting so much data that they already have the capability to manipulate their users on a grand scale.
Todd Haugh, The Conversation, Abbey Stemler, The Conversation & Joshua E Perry, The Conversation
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Watch: Checking your social media obsessively is a biological impulse, says this theory
In two words: unexpected rewards.
Scroll Staff
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