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How Tinder Changed Everything

Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz | The Cut
Jan 2023

Here's Hoping Elon Musk Destroys Twitter

Michelle Goldberg | New York Times
Oct 2022

How dating apps rewired our brains forever

Hattie Crisell | Evening Standard
Sept 2022

DraftKings Sportsbook Aims to Hook MLB Fans

Peter Robison | Bloomberg
Aug 2022

Why young investors are not ready to give up on risk

Madison Darbyshire | Financial Times
Jun 2022

Slot machines bring in billions, so why are casinos removing them?

Will Yakowicz | Forbes
Jun 2022

Measuring Up: The Quantified Self

Slavea Chankova | The Economist, Tech Quarterly
May 2022

Because your algorithm says so

Michelle Santiago | New York Magazine
Feb 2022

How principles from casinos were applied to your cell phone

Liraz Margalit | Psychology Today
Jun 2021

Robinhood's Big Gamble

Sheelah Kolhatkar | New Yorker
May 2021

How a stock app turns young and inexperiences investors into Wall Street profits

Hannah Levintova | Mother Jones
Feb 2021

I'll Take Tesla Stock for $1, Please

Jason Zweig | Wall Street Journal
Dec 2020

Spieler sind in einer Trance

Jochen Metzger | Psychologie Heute
Aug 2019

The machine always wins: addiction to social media

Richard Seymour | The Guardian
Aug 2019

How Has the “Crack Cocaine of Gambling” Affected Illinois?

Jason Grotto, Sandhya Kambhampati, Dan Mihalopoulos | ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ Chicago
20 Feb 2019

Innostuimme mittaamaan askeliamme, untamme ja sykettämme, ja nyt laitteet kertovat meille, miten pitäisi elää – "Emmekö osaa enää tehdä mitään itse?" kysyy professori

Antti Tiainen | Helsingin Sanomat
2 Feb 2019

Interactive sports broadcasts will be like having a slot machine at home

Kevin Litman-Navarro | The Outline
13 Aug 2018

人間と機械の相互作用

伊藤亜紗 | 読売新聞 Yomiuri
13 Aug 2018

「ハマる」めぐる普遍的な問い

渡辺靖 | 日本経済新聞 Nikkei
5 Aug 2018

Social media copies gambling methods 'to create cravings'

Mattha Busby | The Guardian
8 May 2018

Accros du smartphone: comment décrocher sans tout couper?

Fabien Soyez | CNET France
9 Oct 2017

Love in a Time of Tech

Zachary Siegal | Daily Beast
Jul 2017

Kids are hooked on technology. What can be done?

Ellen Lee | Huffington Post
5 Apr 2017

How technology gets us hooked

Adam Alter | The Guardian
28 Feb 2017

Tracking down the root of our self-tracking obsession

Adriana Barton | The Globe & Mail
23 Feb 2017

Emotional architecture: Winning the jackpot every time.

Oliver Lovatt | Gambling Insider
20 Jan 2017

How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games

Simon Parkin | Nautilus
12 Jan 2017

Guess who’s really pushing the buttons?

Russell Wangersky | The Telegram
9 Jan 2017

How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts

John Rosengren | The Atlantic
1 Dec 2016

This App Is Like Uber but for Unlicensed Therapists

Leon Dische Becker | Vice
25 Nov 2016

Romanian Roulette

Diana Mesesan | Balkan Insight
20 Nov 2016

Australia Has a Serious Gambling Problem

Daniel Zender | New York Times
19 Nov 2016

The science behind apps you can’t stop using

Ian Leslie | Australian Financial Review
7 Oct 2016

Què té la tecnologia que enganxa?

Nereida Carrillo | Ara
25 Sep 2016

Addicted to Anticipation

Maia Szalavitz | Nautilus
15 Sep 2016

Quell'azzardo del gioco responsabile

Marco Dari Mattiacci | Altreconomia
8 Sep 2016

Ganarle a la ludopatía

Facundo Manes | Clarín.com
26 Jul 2016

How Technology Hijacks People's Minds

Tristan Harris | Huffington Post
27 May 2016

Two Books on Addiction & Acedia

Leah Libresco | Commonweal
24 Mar 2016

Casino’s online slots mislead by being easier to win

Sean Murphy | Boston Globe
23 Mar 2016

Weird Psychology of Hate-Following People On Instagram

Sophie Wilkinson | The Debrief
18 Feb 2016

She’ll Text Me Not: The science of waiting in modern courtship

Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg | Nautilus
11 Feb 2016

Can’t put down your device? That’s by design

Natasha Singer | The New York Times
5 Dec 2015

User behaviour

Michael Schulson | Aeon
24 Nov 2015

Collapse of Authenticity Helped DraftKings make more $

Michael Thomsen | Forbes
31 Oct 2015

Gamblers, Scientists and the Mysterious Hot Hand

George Johnson | The New York Times
18 Oct 2015

Ka-Ching: documentary reveals what makes pokies so addictive

Michael Safi | The Guardian
17 Oct 2015

Aziz Ansari gets help from MIT professor on book

Mackenzie Cummings-Grady | Boston Globe
11 Jul 2015

Inside the casino, the house is always watching

Evan Selinger | Christian Science Monitor
3 Jun 2015

Comment remédier à l'anxiété de la mesure?

Hubert Guillaud | Internetactu.net
12 May 2015

Losing focus: Why tech is getting in the way of work

Ian Hardy | BBC News
8 May 2015

Engineers of addiction

Andrew Thompson | The Verge
6 May 2015

Technology that prods you to take action, not just collect data

Natasha Singer | The New York Times
19 Apr 2015

New Technology Is Making Gambling Even More Addictive

David Cox | Vice
11 Apr 2015

The machine zone and the future of gambling

Antony Funnell | ABC Australia
18 Mar 2015

The Addiction Algorithm: An interview with Natasha Dow Schüll

Rachelle Annechino | Ethnography Matters
9 Feb 2015

Big Mother Is Watching You

Anne Helen Petersen | BuzzFeed News
1 Jan 2015

Your new Apple Watch isn’t going to make you exercise more

Julia Belluz | Vox
10 Sep 2014

Slot-machine science: how casinos get you to spend money

Brad Plumer | Vox
7 Aug 2014

Gaming the Poor

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead | Opinionator - The New York Times
21 Jun 2014

Scholar Profile: From Slot Machines to Personal Tracking Tools

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
9 Jun 2014

Obsession engineers: Mind control the Candy Crush way

Douglas Heaven | New Scientist
28 May 2014

How gambling machines put us in “the machine zone”

Ian Leslie | New Statesman
6 Mar 2014

The Pleasure and Pain of Speed

Tom Vanderbilt | Nautilus
23 Jan 2014

Casinos’ worrying knack for consumer manipulation

Tim Harford | Financial Times
2 Jan 2014

The Best Book I Read This Year

Alexis Madrigal | The Atlantic
9 Dec 2013

In New York Casino Vote, a Dance With Temptation

Robert H Frank | The New York Times
2 Nov 2013

Slot Machines Are Designed to Addict

Natasha D. Schull | The New York Times
10 Oct 2013

Machine Zone: When you can't stop clicking on Facebook

Alexis Madrigal | The Atlantic
31 Jul 2013

Slot machines: a lose lose situation

Tom Vanderbilt | The Guardian
8 Jun 2013

Slot machines are cunningly designed to milk your wallet

Madhumita Venkataramanan | WIRED UK
9 May 2013

Natasha Schull at Good Experience Laboratory 2008

Natasha Schull | GEL conference
13 Jan 2013

How Slot Machines Raise Our Hopes, Even When We’re Losing

Randall Stross | The New York Times
12 Jan 2013

Quantified self: The tech-based route to a better life?

Karen Weintraub | BBC Future
3 Jan 2013

Digitally Enhanced Addiction

David Wescott | The Chronicle of Higher Education
12 Nov 2012

Technology turns the tables on punters

Christopher Caldwell | Financial Times
12 Oct 2012

Caught in the Gambling Zone

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
17 Sep 2012

Reading the Markets: Schüll, Addiction by Design

Brenda Jubin | Reading the Markets
14 Sep 2012

Can Objects Be Evil?

Laura Norén | Public Books
5 Sep 2012

Understanding gambling addiction

Peter Dizikes | MIT News
4 Sep 2012

Author Interview: Addiction by Design

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
1 Sep 2012

Games prey on your mind

Christopher Caldwell | Financial Times
12 Mar 2010

Could the game be partly to blame for addiction?

Liz Benston | Las Vegas Sun
24 Nov 2009

Hearings on Expanded Gambling in Massachusetts

Hans Breiter & Natasha Schull
29 Oct 2009

Clout St: Group speaks out against legalizing video poker

Dan P. Blake | Chicago Tribune
29 May 2009

Video poker slammed as worst of all possible options

Joseph Ryan | Chicago Daily Herald
29 May 2009

Going for broke

Stephanie Schorow | MIT News
20 May 2009

Glitzy video slots seen as particular addiction risk

Carey Goldberg | The Boston Globe
7 Mar 2009

Slot machines secretly designed to seduce and destroy you

Isaiah Thompson | Philadelphia Citypaper
7 Jan 2009

Beware: 'Machine Zone' Ahead

Natasha Schull | The Washington Post
6 Jul 2008

Gambling with Science

Eliza Strickland | Salon.com
16 Jun 2008

Big Losers

Liz Karagianis | MIT Spectrum
9 Jan 2008

Group calls for federal action, says states too dependent

Tony Batt | Las Vegas Review-Journal
13 Oct 2007

Md. Budget Crisis: Gamblers Could be Hooked on Slots

Michael Walsh | Southern Maryland Online
12 Oct 2007

RADIO | TV | PODCASTS
Maybe I've Got a Problem | Bot Love

Radiotopia
Mar 2023

For the Love of the Game (Guest)

Dr. Phil
Feb 2023

Dating Games

Land of the Giants (podcast)
Jan 2023

America Rolls the Dice with Online Gambling

Bloomberg Media
Dec 2022

Featured commentator on Esports harms

NBC News Now
Jun 2022

Online gambling makes sports betting easier than ever

NBC Nightly News
Jan 2022

Money, Explained: Gambling

Netflix Documentary
May 2021

Slot Machines (50 Things That Made the Modern Economy)

Tim Harford | BBC News
Oct 2020

Social Media’s Addictive Power is by Design

RETRO REPORT | PBS
Oct 2019

Tech Addiction and the Dark Art of Persuasive Design

Ali Rae | Al Jazeera
Jul 2019

What Happened in Vegas

Your Undivided Attention Podcast | Center for Humane Technology
2019

Time Thieves

Dir. Cosima Dannoritzer | Polar Star Films (Espagne)
2018

Down and Under: the economics of poker machines in Australia

ABC The Money
3 May 2018

Jackpot

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
1 May 2018

Attentional Serfdom

Tricky: A Podcast with Heather Chaplin
13 Feb 2018

Gambling on Addiction

The Fifth Estate | CBC-TV
8 Dec 2017

Insatiable

The Digital Human Series | BBC Radio 4
30 Oct 2017

Adams Ruins Everything Podcast Episode 35

Adams Ruins Everything | Maximum Fun
20 Sep 2017

Adam Ruins Vacations

Adam Ruins Everything | TruTV
17 Sep 2017

Nudge, nudge, wink, wink: The science of behavioural design

Spark | CBC radio
14 May 2017

Life, Calibrated

Explorer | National Geographic
17 Apr 2017

Casino Capitalism

On Contact with Chris Hedges | RT America
26 Mar 2017

Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?

The Inquiry | BBC world service
25 Feb 2017

Slot Machines: Addiction by Design

The Agenda with Steve Paikin | TV Ontario
26 Jan 2017

Addiction, Ludic Loops & Smartphones as ‘Skinner Boxes’

Mike Walsh Podcast | Next Institute Limited
2 Oct 2016

What Makes You Click

Tegenlicht | Netherlands Public Television VPRO
25 Sep 2016

Your Quantified Body, Your Quantified Self

Note to Self | WNYC
16 Mar 2016

From Bites to Bytes - Quantifying the Everyday

Wisconsin Public Radio
26 Feb 2016

Ka-ching: Pokie Nation: a documentary

Looking Glass Pictures | TVF International
20 Oct 2015

A Gamble on the Future

Future Tense | ABC Australia
15 Mar 2015

Las Vegas

Codes and Conspiracies | American Heroes Channel
8 Mar 2015

Addiction by Design

Spark with Nora Young | CBC Radio
6 Nov 2014

Gambling's Innovations

Innovation Hub  | WGHB
15 Aug 2014

Machine zone: your sweet tooth for 'Candy Crush'

All Tech Considered | NPR
7 Jun 2014

Ding! You Lost! Congratulations!

The Global Mail
27 Jan 2014

No Armed Bandit

99% Invisible with Roman Mars | Public Radio Exchange
29 Apr 2013

Please Explain: The Science of Gambling Addiction

The Leonard Lopate Show | WNYC
1 Feb 2013

Gambling Addiction: The Machine Zone

State of Nevada | KNPR
3 Oct 2012

Slot Machines: The Big Gamble

60 Minutes | CBS
7 Jan 2011

Design for the Real World: Slots

Studio 360 | WNYC
13 Mar 2009