Review of The Social Dilemma

Continuing my previous post, from this review:

"This is nonsense, based on ancient, discredited behaviorist myths. Dopamine doesn’t give anyone a 'hit.' And people do not 'learn' to become addicted through rewards and reinforcements. William Brewer’s classic review of behaviorist experiments found that the presence or absence of reward stimuli or negative reinforcements made no difference to whether subjects learned or did not learn the behavior that the experimenters were looking for. Yet, unexamined behaviorist ideology has seeped into addiction research, generally fused with the most reductive evolutionary psychology — and this documentary has more dubious evolutionary babble than a pickup artist’s handbook."