# Professor Adam Alter's forthcoming book, "Irresistible," is featured in a science and psychology book roundup

1 Faculty News January 6, 2017 ![New York Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035440.gif?itok=tfYuio90)>

Excerpt from [New York Magazine](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/15-of-the-best-science-books-coming-in-2017.html) -- "Last year for this magazine, Andrew Sullivan wrote a long, moving essay about what he characterized as an 'information addiction,' in a piece somewhat terrifyingly titled, 'I Used to Be a Human Being.' In March, psychologist [Adam Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) takes on the subject of behavioral addiction — why we’re so attached to our phones, and what, if anything, can be done about it."

[Read more](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/15-of-the-best-science-books-coming-in-2017.html)