{"id":6723,"date":"2014-02-19T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2014-02-20T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:01:08","slug":"why-we-are-addicted-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/02\/why-we-are-addicted-to-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we are addicted to science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that has neither a quick nor a simple answer. Spontaneously, I would not talk about the challenge but the reward system included. Maybe the addiction question ( and it is indeed an addiction for some people ) can be answered by analogy of a much simpler experiment using the &#8220;Candy Crush Saga&#8221; app that works extensively with audiovisual rewards. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2013\/11\/15\/candy-crush-saga-the-science-behind-our-addiction\/\">time.com<\/a> is now writing about this app and identifies 9 key issues:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. It Makes You Wait<br \/>\n2. We\u2019re All Suckers for Sweet Talk<br \/>\n3. You Can Play With One Hand<br \/>\n4. There\u2019s Always More<br \/>\n5. You Don\u2019t Have to Pay \u2013 but if You Want to, It\u2019s Easy<br \/>\n6. It Taps Into Our Inner Child<br \/>\n7. It\u2019s Social<br \/>\n8. It\u2019s an Escape<br \/>\n9.  It Grows on You\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except for 3. &#8211; you don&#8217;t need any hand &#8211; all of these apply to science too, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that has neither a quick nor a simple answer. Spontaneously, I would not talk about the challenge but the reward system included. Maybe the addiction question ( and it is indeed an addiction for some people ) can be answered by analogy of a much simpler experiment using the &#8220;Candy Crush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/02\/why-we-are-addicted-to-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why we are addicted to science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2832,2833,218],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-experiment","tag-reward","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6732,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}