Sentences with phrase «exploiting human psychology»

After former company president Sean Parker said Facebook was exploiting human psychology to the detriment of its users, and ex-vice president of growth Chamath Palihapitiya implied that Facebook may be responsible for creating «tools that are ripping apart the social fabric,» Facebook says it's instituting a new...

In a world where designers are exploiting human psychology to make games more addictive, the save game is the only friend we have.

«These kinds of lootboxes and microtransactions are explicitly designed to prey upon and exploit human psychology in the same way casino games are so designed,» Lee wrote (in a rather lengthy post) on Reddit.

«These kinds of lootboxes and microtransactions are explicitly designed to prey upon and exploit human psychology in the same way casino games are so designed,» he said in a Reddit post following up on the announcement video.

If you don't restrict yourself to predictions made at least that precisely, it's easy to waste time with fortunetellers who have no actual ability to predict the future, merely actual willingness to try to exploit human psychology.

Not exact matches

These companies are «exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.»

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

... It's a social - validation feedback loop... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.

In a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform «knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.»

They include exploiting pattern recognition, understanding some basic tenets of human psychology (i.e., if you're involved in the trick, you're more likely to believe it), and combining two tricks to hide critical sleights of hand.

``... we needed to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever... It's a social validation feedback loop... You're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway.»

Sean Parker, Facebook's first president, said late last year that the social media platform exploits «vulnerability in human psychology» to addict users.