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Professor Adam Alter's comments on the gamification elements used in dating apps in the HBO documentary, "Swiped," are featured

— 9/20/2018

Excerpt from Refinery29 -- "'When you're playing a slot machine, the machine will tell you when you've won with ringing bells and flashing lights,' Adam Alter, a social psychologist at New York University, said in the documentary. 'And a lot of the apps we use now have elements of that built in, even when they aren't really about games.'"

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Professor Adam Alter's comments on the gamification elements used in dating apps in the HBO documentary, "Swiped," are featured