The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast556. How Social Media Is Wrecking Kids' Lives and Stealing Their Childhood | Jonathan Haidt

Social Media as Slot Machines

36:17–37:38 · 81s

Haidt explains how TikTok and social media platforms literally model their interfaces after slot machines, using variable ratio reinforcement schedules to create addiction-like behaviors in children. He details how this differs fundamentally from passive television watching.

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