Experts Say TV Binge-Watching Feels Like A Drug

What is the science behind why watching your favorite show can be addictive?

By Lynnea Domienik, Claire Hyman

Sept 20, 2021, 5:26pm CT

This June 24, 2015, file photo, shows the Netflix Apple TV app icon, in South Orange, N.J. Dan Goodman / AP Photo

What is the science behind why watching your favorite show can be addictive?

By Lynnea Domienik, Claire Hyman

Sept 20, 2021, 5:26pm CT

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On the heels of the Emmys, Reset checks in with a psychiatrist and professor about how the dopamine from binge-watching acts as a drug.

GUEST: Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University, author of Dopamine Nation