Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.

The assumption that addiction is always harmful has gotten us nowhere toward helping kids or regulating the corporations that ...

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