The Only Good Thing Left About Facebook

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!?

Why It's So Hard to Shake the Way People Make You Feel (NirAndFar) Good or bad, our feelings color how we see people.

The 6 Books That Paved My Career as a Behavioral Designer and Bestselling Author [AUDIO] (Podcast) These are the six books that paved my path to writing countless articles and two bestselling books on the science and application of behavior change.

You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (Even When You Don't Think You Are) (Physiqonomics) You're not losing body fat because, in one way or another, you're eating more than you think you are.

The Only Good Thing Left About Facebook ( The Atlantic) Some people believe that the company's scandals are reason enough to quit the platform.

How People Think (Collaborative Fund) A description of seventeen of the most common and influential aspects of how people think.

How to think about free will (PSYCHE) You can't escape cause and effect, but there is a way of viewing human agency that is motivating, plausible and human.

?Happy reading!

- Nir

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Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products , is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life , reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com