The Hooked Model

  • Rather than using conventional feedback loops, companies today are employing a new, stronger habit-forming mechanism to hook users—the Hooked Model.
  • At the heart of the Hooked Model is a variable schedule of rewards: a powerful hack that focuses attention, provides pleasure, and infatuates the mind.
  • Our search for variable rewards is about an endless desire for three types of rewards: those of the tribe, the hunt and the self.

Source: https://www.nirandfar.com/want-to-hook-your-users-drive-them-crazy/

It is a fascinating tool to augment commitment devices in a decision-making framework.