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How Uber uses psychological tricks to push its drivers' buttons
​Even as Uber talks up its determination to treat drivers more humanely, it is engaged in a behind-the-scenes experiment in behavioural science to manipulate them in the service of its corporate growth – an effort whose dimensions became evident in interviews with several dozen current and former Uber officials, drivers and social scientists, as well as a review of behavioural research.