Addiction by Design¶
Schüll, N. D. (2012). Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Princeton University Press.
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- Supernormal Stimulus
- The identical structure governs variable-ratio engagement loops in social media (the recommendation algorithm as generator producing super-ancestral novelty and social-validation cues) and gambling machines engineered around intermittent reinforcement and near-miss cues.
This sourceDetails how gambling machines are engineered around intermittent (variable-ratio) reinforcement and near-miss cues to drive disproportionate engagement — a supernormal-stimulus generator in gambling design.
- The identical structure governs variable-ratio engagement loops in social media (the recommendation algorithm as generator producing super-ancestral novelty and social-validation cues) and gambling machines engineered around intermittent reinforcement and near-miss cues.
- Tension And Release
- The return-timing parameter is the designer's central lever: the near-miss-then-payout pattern in slot and freemium design withholds and delays the release to amplify craving, and here the frame's causal-coupling argument becomes an ethical diagnostic — the difference between good game design (release earned by genuine challenge) and a dark pattern (release made artificially cheap relative to a manufactured tension, as in engineered near-misses).
This sourceSlot-machine 'near-miss'-then-payout design engineering craving through manipulated tension and cheap release — the dark-pattern use of the cycle.
- The return-timing parameter is the designer's central lever: the near-miss-then-payout pattern in slot and freemium design withholds and delays the release to amplify craving, and here the frame's causal-coupling argument becomes an ethical diagnostic — the difference between good game design (release earned by genuine challenge) and a dark pattern (release made artificially cheap relative to a manufactured tension, as in engineered near-misses).
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