TITLE
Why You Can't Put Your Phone Down

DESCRIPTION
You don't check your phone because it's good. You check because you never know what's next.
The psychology of random rewards, from lab experiments to slot machines to your feed.

- Unpredictable rewards keep you checking
- Slot machines pay out the same way
- The feed feels like the same loop
- Take away the surprise

SOURCES
[S1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement

#psychology #habits #shorts

CREDITS
- "Black smartphone in hand (Unsplash)" by Dennis Cortés cortes (wikimedia), licence: CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_smartphone_in_hand_(Unsplash).jpg
- "Anatomical model of human brain," by unknown (wikimedia), licence: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomical_model_of_human_brain,_Wellcome_L0010008.jpg
- "Antique one-armed bandit, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK" by Ronald Saunders from Warrington, UK (wikimedia), licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antique_one-armed_bandit,_Ventnor,_Isle_of_Wight,_UK.jpg
- "Common pigeon at Waterlow Park, London 01" by Satdeep Gill (wikimedia), licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_pigeon_at_Waterlow_Park,_London_01.jpg
- Music: original score, synthesised for this video
- Voice: AI narration (kokoro, am_michael).
- Disclosure: this video uses an AI-generated voice and AI-assisted editing.