Joe Rogan Experience #1564 - Adam Alter

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 13, 2020

Duration

2h 2m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the author of two books, Drunk Tank Pink, and Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Adam-Alter-audiobook/dp/B06WGMQBBM

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Adam Alter

  guest

• Jamie Vernon

  guest

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Adam Alter, Joe Rogan Experience #1564 - Adam Alter explores How Screens Hijack Our Brains: Addiction, VR, and Our Future Joe Rogan and psychologist/author Adam Alter explore how modern technology, especially smartphones, social media, and video games, are engineered to capture and hold human attention. They discuss psychological mechanisms like “stopping cues,” variable rewards, and goal-completion drives that make experiences such as Flappy Bird, World of Warcraft, and social feeds so hard to quit. The conversation balances clear benefits of tech—remote work, fitness tech, VR exercise, global connection—against serious downsides including addiction, lost time, social isolation, and mental health harms, particularly for children and teens. Both conclude there is no simple fix at the company or government level, so individuals and parents must consciously design boundaries and habits around screens while society slowly adapts.

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