Notes

Introduction

1 . “IDC-Facebook Always Connected.pdf,” File Shared from Box (accessed Dec. 19, 2013), https://fb-public.app.box.com/s/3iq5x6uwnqtq7ki4q8wk .

2 . “Survey Finds One-Third of Americans More Willing to Give Up Sex Than Their Mobile Phones,” TeleNav (accessed Dec. 19, 2013), http://www.telenav.com/about/pr-summer-travel/report-20110803.html .

3 . Antti Oulasvirta, Tye Rattenbury, Lingyi Ma, and Eeva Raita, “Habits Make Smartphone Use More Pervasive,” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 16, no. 1 (Jan. 2012): 105–14, doi:10.1007/s00779-011-0412-2.

4 . Dusan Belic, “Tomi Ahonen: Average Users Looks at Their Phone 150 Times a Day!” IntoMobile (accessed Dec. 19, 2013), http://www.intomobile.com/2012/02/09/tomi-ahonen-average-users-looks-their-phone-150-times-day .

5 . E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, P. M. Gollwitzer, eds., Oxford Handbook of Human Action (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

6 . For purposes of this book, I use the definition of habit formation as the process of learning new behaviors through repetition until they become automatic. I am grateful to Dr. Stephen Wendel for pointing out the spectrum of habits. For a framework describing other automatic behaviors, see: John A. Bargh, “The Four Horsemen of Automaticity: Awareness, Intention, Efficiency, and Control in Social Cognition.” Handbook of Social Cognition , vol. 1: Basic Processes ; vol. 2: Applications (2nd ed.), eds. R. S. Wyer and T. K. Srull (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1994), 1–40.

7 . Bas Verplanken and Wendy Wood, “Interventions to Break and Create Consumer Habits,” Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 25, no. 1 (March 2006): 90–103, doi:10.1509/jppm.25.1.90.

8 . W. Wood and D. T. Neal, “A New Look at Habits and the Habit-Goal Interface,” Psychological Review 114, no. 4 (2007): 843–63.

9 . “Pinterest,” Crunchbase, June 25, 2014. http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pinterest .

10 . “What Causes Behavior Change?” B. J. Fogg’s Behavior Model (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.behaviormodel.org .

11 . “Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just Another Primate?” FORA.tv (accessed Dec. 19, 2013), http://fora.tv/2011/02/15/Robert_Sapolsky_Are_Humans_Just_Another_Primate .

12 . Damien Brevers and Xavier Noël, “Pathological Gambling and the Loss of Willpower: A Neurocognitive Perspective,” Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 3, no. 2 (Sept. 2013), doi:10.3402/snp.v3i0.21592.

13 . Paul Graham, “The Acceleration of Addictiveness,” (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html .

14 . Night of the Living Dead, IMDb, (accessed June 25, 2014), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350 .

15 . Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, and John P. Balz, “Choice Architecture” (SSRN Scholarly Paper, Rochester, NY), Social Science Research Network (April 2, 2010), http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1583509 .

Chapter 1: The Habit Zone

1 . Wendy Wood, Jeffrey M. Quinn, and Deborah A. Kashy, “Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83, no. 6 (Dec. 2002): 1281–97.

2 . Henry H. and Barbara J. Knowlton, “The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Habit Formation,” Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, no. 6 (June 2006): 464–76, doi:10.1038/nrn1919.

3 . A. Dickinson and B. Balleine, “The Role of Learning in the Operation of Motivational Systems,” in C. R. Gallistel (ed.), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Motivation, and Emotion (New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002), 497–534.

4 . “Notes from 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting,” Tilson Funds (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.tilsonfunds.com/brkmtg05notes.pdf .

5 . “Charlie Munger: Turning $2 Million Into $2 Trillion,” Mungerisms (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://mungerisms.blogspot.com/2010/04/charlie-munger-turning-2-million-into-2.html .

6 . “Candy Crush: So Popular It’s Killing King’s IPO?” Yahoo Finance (accessed Dec. 16, 2013), http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/candy-crush-so-popular-it-s-smashing-interest-in-an-ipo-160523940.html .

7 . Stephen Shankland, “Evernote: ‘The Longer You Use It, the More Likely You Are to Pay,’” CNET (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57339139-264/evernote-the-longer-you-use-it-the-more-likely-you-are-to-pay .

8 . David H. Freedman, “Evernote: 2011 Company of the Year,” Inc. (accessed Nov. 14, 2013), http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-the-year.html .

9 . David Skok, “Lessons Learned—Viral Marketing,” For Entrepreneurs (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/lessons-learnt-viral-marketing .

10 . John T. Gourville, “Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers: Understanding the Psychology of New-Product Adoption,” Harvard Business Review (accessed Nov, 12, 2013), http://hbr.org/product/eager-sellers-and-stony-buyers-understanding-the-p/an/R0606F-PDF-ENG .

11 . Cecil Adams, “Was the QWERTY Keyboard Purposely Designed to Slow Typists?,” Straight Dope (Oct. 30, 1981), http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/221/was-the-qwerty-keyboard-purposely-designed-to-slow-typists .

12 . Mark E. Bouton, “Context and Behavioral Processes in Extinction,” Learning & Memory 11, no. 5 (Sept. 2004): 485–94, doi:10.1101/lm.78804.

13 . Ari P. Kirshenbaum, Darlene M. Olsen, and Warren K. Bickel, “A Quantitative Review of the Ubiquitous Relapse Curve,” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 36, no. 1 (Jan. 2009): 8–17, doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2008.04.001.

14 . Robert W. Jeffery, Leonard H. Epstein, G. Terrence Wilson, Adam Drewnowski, Albert J. Stunkard, and Rena R. Wing, “Long-term Maintenance of Weight Loss: Current Status,” Health Psychology 19, no. 1, (2000): 5–16, doi:10.1037/0278-6133.19.Suppl1.5.

15 . Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (New York: Random House, 2012), 20.

16 . G. Judah, B. Gardner, and R. Aunger, “Forming a Flossing Habit: An Exploratory Study of the Psychological Determinants of Habit Formation,” British Journal of Health Psychology 18 (2013): 338–53.

17 . Matt Wallaert, “Bing Your Brain: Test, Then Test Again,” Bing Blogs (accessed Dec. 16, 2013), http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2013/02/06/bing-your-brain-test-then-test-again.aspx .

18 . “comScore Releases September 2013 U.S. Search Engine Rankings.” comScore, Inc. (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2013/10/comScore_Releases_September_2013_US_Search_Engine_Rankings .

19 . Amazon Product Ads, Amazon.com (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://services.amazon.com/content/product-ads-on-amazon.htm/ref=as_left_pads_apa1#!how-it-works .

20 . Valerie Trifts and Gerald Häubl, “Information Availability and Consumer Preference: Can Online Retailers Benefit from Providing Access to Competitor Price Information?,” Journal of Consumer Psychology 2003, 149–59.

21 . Nick Wingfield, “More Retailers at Risk of Amazon ‘Showrooming,’” Bits blog (accessed Dec. 16, 2013), http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/more-retailers-at-risk-of-amazon-showrooming/ .

22 . Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

23 . Phillipa Lally, Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld, Henry W. W. Potts, and Jane Wardle, “How Are Habits Formed: Modelling Habit Formation in the Real World,” European Journal of Social Psychology 40, no. 6 (2010): 998–1009, doi:10.1002/ejsp.674.

24 . Paul A. Offit, “Don’t Take Your Vitamins,” New York Times (June 8, 2013), http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html .

Chapter 2: Trigger

1 . Accessed Nov. 12, 2013, http://instagram.com/press .

2 . Somini Perlroth, Nicole Sengupta, and Jenna Wortham, “Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections,” New York Times (April 13, 2012), http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/technology/instagram-founders-were-helped-by-bay-area-connections.html .

3 . “Twitter ‘Tried to Buy Instagram before Facebook.’” Telegraph (April 16, 2012), http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9206312/Twitter-tried-to-buy-Instagram-before-Facebook.html .

4 . Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice (New York: Ecco, 2004).

5 . Blake Masters, “Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Class 2 Notes Essay,” Blake Masters (April 6, 2012), http://blakemasters.com/post/20582845717/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-2-notes-essay .

6 . R. Kotikalapudi, S. Chellappan, F. Montgomery, D. Wunsch, and K. Lutzen, “Associating Internet Usage with Depressive Behavior Among College Students,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 31, no. 4 (2012): 73–80, doi:10.1109/MTS.2012.2225462.

7 . Sriram Chellappan and Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, “How Depressed People Use the Internet,” New York Times (June 15, 2012), http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/opinion/sunday/how-depressed-people-use-the-internet.html .

8 . Ryan Tate, “Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online,” Wired (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.wired.com/business/2013/09/ev-williams-xoxo .

9 . Erika Hall, “How the ‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation,” Wired (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-do-research-when-you-can-fail-fast-pivot-and-act-out-other-popular-startup-cliches .

10 . “The Power of User Narratives: Jack Dorsey (Square),” video, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture (Stanford University, 2011), http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2644 .

11 . Eric Ries, “What Is Customer Development?,” Startup Lessons Learned (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-customer-development.html .

12 . Rich Crandall, “Empathy Map,” the K12 Lab Wiki (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/k12/wiki/3d994/Empathy_Map.html .

13 . Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-scale Production (Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1988).

14 . For more on the need for social belonging, see: Susan T. Fiske, Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology (Hoboken: Wiley, 2010).

Chapter 3: Action

1 . “What Causes Behavior Change?,” B. J. Fogg’s Behavior Model (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://behaviormodel.org .

2 . Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan, “Self-determination Theory: A Macrotheory of Human Motivation, Development, and Health,” Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne 49, no. 3 (2008): 182–85, doi:10.1037/a0012801.

3 . Barack Obama “Hope” poster, Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, November 5, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster&oldid=579742540 .

4 . Denis J. Hauptly, Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products (New York: AMACOM, 2007).

5 . Ingrid Lunden, “Analyst: Twitter Passed 500M Users in June 2012, 140M of Them in US; Jakarta ‘Biggest Tweeting’ City,” TechCrunch (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/analyst-twitter-passed-500m-users-in-june-2012-140m-of-them-in-us-jakarta-biggest-tweeting-city .

6 . “What Causes Behavior Change?,” B. J. Fogg’s Behavior Model (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.behaviormodel.org .

7 . Leena Rao, “Twitter Seeing 90 Million Tweets Per Day, 25 Percent Contain Links,” TechCrunch (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/twitter-seeing-90-million-tweets-per-day .

8 . Stephen Worchel, Jerry Lee, and Akanbi Adewole, “Effects of Supply and Demand on Ratings of Object Value,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 32, no. 5 (1975): 906–14, doi:10.1037/0022-3514.32.5.906.

9 . Gene Weingarten, “Pearls Before Breakfast,” Washington Post (April 8, 2007), http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html .

10 . Hilke Plassmann, John O’Doherty, Baba Shiv, and Antonio Rangel, “Marketing Actions Can Modulate Neural Representations of Experienced Pleasantness,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 3 (Jan. 2008): 1050–54, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706929105.

11 . Joseph Nunes and Xavier Dreze, “The Endowed Progress Effect: How Artificial Advancement Increases Effort” (SSRN Scholarly Paper, Rochester, New York), Social Science Research Network (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=991962 .

12 . “List of Cognitive Biases,” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (accessed November 12, 2013), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases .

13 . Stephen P. Anderson, Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences (Berkeley: New Riders, 2011).

Chapter 4: Variable Reward

1 . J. Olds and P. Milner, “Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of the septal area and other regions of rat brain,” Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 47 (1954), 419–27.

2 . Brian Knutson, G. Elliott Wimmer, Camelia M. Kuhnen, and Piotr Winkielman, “Nucleus Accumbens Activation Mediates the Influence of Reward Cues on Financial Risk Taking,” Neuroreport 19, no. 5 (March 2008): 509–13, doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f85c01.

3 . V. S. Ramachandran, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers (New York: Pi Press, 2004).

4 . Mathias Pessiglione, Ben Seymour, Guillaume Flandin, Raymond J. Dolan, and Chris D. Frith, “Dopamine-Dependent Prediction Errors Underpin Reward-Seeking Behaviour in Humans,” Nature 442, no. 7106 (Aug. 2006): 1042–45, doi:10.1038/nature05051.

5 . Charles B. Ferster and B. F. Skinner, Schedules of Reinforcement (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957).

6 . G. S. Berns, S. M. McClure, G. Pagnoni, and P. R. Montague, “Predictability Modulates Human Brain Response to Reward,” Journal of Neuroscience 21, no. 8 (April 2001): 2793–98.

7 . L. Aharon, N. Etcoff, D. Ariely, C. F. Habris, et al., “Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value: fMRI and Behavioral Evidence,” Neuron 32, no. 3 (Nov. 2001): 537–551.

8 . A. Bandura, Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1986).

9 . A. Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Self-Control (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1997).

10 . “Why Humanizing Players and Developers Is Crucial for League of Legends ” (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36847/Why_Humanizing_Players_And_Developers_Is_Crucial_For_League_of_Legends.php .

11 . Christian Nutt, “League of Legends : Changing Bad Player Behavior with Neuroscience,” Gamasutra (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/178650/League_of_Legends_Changing_bad_player_behavior_with_neuroscience.php#.URj5SVpdccs .

12 . Katharine Milton, “A Hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat-Eating in Human Evolution,” Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 8, no. 1 (1999): 11–21, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)8:1<11::AID-EVAN6>3.0.CO;2-M.

13 . Alok Jha, “Stone Me! Spears Show Early Human Species Was Sharper Than We Thought,” Guardian (Nov. 15, 2012), http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/nov/15/stone-spear-early-human-species .

14 . Robin McKie, “Humans Hunted for Meat 2 Million Years Ago,” Guardian (Sept. 22, 2012), http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/sep/23/human-hunting-evolution-2million-years .

15 . Daniel Lieberman, “The Barefoot Professor: By Nature Video” (2010), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrnj-7YKZE .

16 . Gary Rivlin, “Slot Machines for the Young and Active,” New York Times (Dec. 10, 2007), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/business/10slots.html .

17 . Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes, “Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding—$225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed),” All Things Digital (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massive-funding-225-million-at-3-8-billion-valuation .

18 . B. Zeigarnik, “Uber das Behalten yon erledigten und underledigten Handlungen.” Psychologische Forschung 9 (1927): 1–85.

19 . Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan, “Self-determination Theory: A Macrotheory of Human Motivation, Development, and Health,” Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne 49, no. 3 (2008): 182–85, doi:10.1037/a0012801.

20 . Alexia Tsotsis and Leena Rao, “Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million,” TechCrunch (accessed Nov. 29, 2013), http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/mailbox-cost-dropbox-around-100-million .

21 . Quantcast audience profile for mahalo.com (according to Jason Calcanis), Quantcast.com (accessed June 19, 2010), https://www.quantcast.com/mahalo.com .

22 . Graham Cluley, “Creepy Quora Erodes Users’ Privacy, Reveals What You Have Read,” Naked Security (accessed Dec. 1, 2013), http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/09/creepy-quora-erodes-users-privacy-reveals-what-you-have-read .

23 . Sandra Liu Huang, “Removing Feed Stories About Views,” Quora (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.quora.com/permalink/gG922bywy .

24 . Christopher J. Carpenter, “A Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of the ‘But You Are Free’ Compliance-Gaining Technique,” Communication Studies 64, no. 1 (2013): 6–17, doi:10.1080/10510974.2012.727941.

25 . Juho Hamari, “Social Aspects Play an Important Role in Gamification,” Gamification Research Network (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://gamification-research.org/2013/07/social-aspects .

26 . Josef Adalian, “Breaking Bad Returns to Its Biggest Ratings Ever,” Vulture (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/breaking-bad-returns-to-its-biggest-ratings-ever.html .

27 . Mike Janela, “Breaking Bad Cooks up Record-breaking Formula for Guinness World Records 2014 Edition,” Guinness World Records (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2013/9/breaking-bad-cooks-up-record-breaking-formula-for-guinness-world-records-2014-edition-51000 .

28 . Geoff F. Kaufman and Lisa K. Libby, “Changing Beliefs and Behavior through Experience-Taking,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103, no. 1 (July 2012): 1–19, doi:10.1037/a0027525.

29 . C. J. Arlotta, “CityVille Tops FarmVille ’s Highest Peak of Monthly Users,” SocialTimes (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://socialtimes.com/cityville-tops-farmvilles-highest-peak-of-monthly-users_b33272 .

30 . Zynga, Inc., Form 10-K Annual Report, 2011 (San Francisco: filed Feb. 28, 2012), http://investor.zynga.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-12-85761&CIK=1439404 .

31 . Luke Karmali, “Mists of Pandaria Pushes Warcraft Subs over 10 Million,” IGN (Oct. 4, 2012), http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/04/mists-of-pandaria-pushes-warcraft-subs-over-10-million .

Chapter 5: Investment

1 . “Taiwan Teen Dies After Gaming for 40 Hours,” The Australian (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/taiwan-teen-dies-after-gaming-for-40-hours/story-fn3dxix6-1226428437223 .

2 . James Gregory Lord, The Raising of Money: 35 Essentials Trustees Are Using to Make a Difference (Seattle: New Futures Press, 2010).

3 . Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (New York: HarperCollins, 2007).

4 . Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely, The “IKEA Effect”: When Labor Leads to Love (SSRN Scholarly Paper, Rochester, NY), Social Science Research Network . (March 4, 2011), http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1777100 .

5 . J. L. Freedman and S. C. Fraser, “Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 4, no. 2 (1966): 196–202.

6 . “Jesse Schell @ DICE2010 (Part 2),” (2010), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPfaSxU6jyY .

7 . B. J. Fogg and C. Nass, “How Users Reciprocate to Computers: An Experiment That Demonstrates Behavior Change,” in Proceedings of CHI (ACM Press, 1997), 331–32.

8 . Jonathan Libov, “On Bloomberg: ‘You could code Twitter in a day. Then you’d just need to build the network and infrastructure.’ Didn’t know it was so easy!,” Twitter, @libovness (Nov. 7, 2013), https://twitter.com/libovness/status/398451464907259904 .

9 . Andrew Min, “First Impressions Matter! 2690 of Apps Downloaded in 2010 were used Just Once,” Localytics (accessed July 23, 2014), http://www.localytics.com/blog/2011/first-impressions-matter-26-percent-of-apps-downloaded-used-just-once .

10 . Peter Farago, “App Engagement: The Matrix Reloaded,” Flurry (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://blog.flurry.com/bid/90743/App-Engagement-The-Matrix-Reloaded .

11 . Anthony Ha, “Tinder’s Sean Rad Hints at a Future Beyond Dating, Says the App Sees 350M Swipes a Day,” TechCrunch (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/29/sean-rad-disrupt .

12 . Stuart Dredge, “Snapchat: Self-destructing Messaging App Raises $60M in Funding,” Guardian (June 25, 2013), http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/jun/25/snapchat-app-self-destructing-messaging .

13 . Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes, “Pinterest Does Another Massive Funding—$225 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation (Confirmed),” All Things Digital (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://allthingsd.com/20131023/pinterest-does-another-massive-funding-225-million-at-3-8-billion-valuation/ .

Chapter 6: What Are You Going to Do with This?

1 . For further thoughts on the morality of designing behavior, see: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, and John P. Balz, “Choice Architecture” (SSRN Scholarly Paper, Rochester, New York), Social Science Research Network , (April 2, 2010), http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1583509 .

2 . Charlie White, “Survey: Cellphones vs. Sex—Which Wins?,” Mashable (accessed), http://mashable.com/2011/08/03/telenav-cellphone-infographic .

3 . Ian Bogost, “The Cigarette of This Century,” Atlantic (June 6, 2012), http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-cigarette-of-this-century/258092/ .

4 . David H. Freedman, “The Perfected Self,” Atlantic (June 2012), http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perfected-self/308970/ .

5 . Paul Graham,“The Acceleration of Addictiveness,” Paul Graham (July 2010; accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html .

6 . Gary Bunker, “The Ethical Line in User Experience Research,” mUmBRELLA (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://mumbrella.com.au/the-ethical-line-in-user-experience-research-163114 .

7 . Chris Nodder, “How Deceptive Is Your Persuasive Design?” UX Magazine (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), https://uxmag.com/articles/how-deceptive-is-your-persuasive-design .

8 . “Nurturing Self-help Among Kenyan Farmers,” GSB in Brief (accessed Dec. 1, 2013), http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0911/ss-kenyan.html .

9 . David Stewart, Demystifying Slot Machines and Their Impact in the United States, American Gaming Association (May 26, 2010), http://www.americangaming.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/whitepapers/demystifying_slot_machines_and_their_impact.pdf .

10 . Michael Shermer, “How We Opt Out of Overoptimism: Our Habit of Ignoring What Is Real Is a Double-Edged Sword,” Scientific American (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=opting-out-of-overoptimism .

11 . Jason Tanz, “The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit,” Wired (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_cowclicker .

12 . Ian Bogost, “Cowpocalypse Now: The Cows Have Been Raptured,” Bogost.com (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://www.bogost.com/blog/cowpocalypse_now.shtml

Chapter 7: Case Study: The Bible App

1 . “On Fifth Anniversary of Apple iTunes Store, YouVersion Bible App Reaches 100 Million Downloads: First-Ever Survey Shows How App Is Truly Changing Bible Engagement,” PRWeb (July 8, 2013), http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/7/prweb10905595.htm .

2 . Alexia Tsotsis,“Snapchat Snaps Up a $80M Series B Led by IVP at an $800M Valuation,” TechCrunch (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/22/source-snapchat-snaps-up-80m-from-ivp-at-a-800m-valuation .

3 . YouVersion infographics (accessed Nov. 13, 2013), http://blog.youversion.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/themobilebible1.jpg .

4 . Henry Alford, “If I Do Humblebrag So Myself,” New York Times (Nov. 30, 2012), http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/bah-humblebrag-the-unfortunate-rise-of-false-humility.html .

5 . Diana I. Tamir and Jason P. Mitchell, “Disclosing Information About the Self Is Intrinsically Rewarding,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May 7, 2012): 201202129, doi:10.1073/pnas.1202129109.

Chapter 8: Habit Testing and Where to Look for Habit-Forming Opportunities

1 . Mattan Griffel, “Discovering Your Aha! Moment,” GrowHack (Dec. 4, 2012), http://www.growhack.com/2012/12/04/discovering-your-aha-moment .

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