Smartphone Addiction
Smartphone notifications have turned us all into Pavlov's dogs - David Greenfield
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Smartphone Detox: How To Power Down In A Wired World
If the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov were alive today, what would he say about smartphones? He might not think of them as phones at all, but instead as remarkable tools for understanding how technology can manipulate our brains.
Pavlov's own findings — from experiments he did more than a century ago, involving food, buzzers and slobbering dogs — offer key insights into why our phones have become almost an extension of our bodies, modern researchers say. The findings also provide clues to how we can break our dependence.
Pavlov originally set off to study canine digestion. But one day, he noticed something peculiar while feeding his dogs. If he played a sound — like a…
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Break up with your smartphone
Practical advice on ending your toxic relationship with your phone.
Is Your Child a Phone ‘Addict’?
On the heels of two large Apple investors urging the company to address kids’ phone addiction, many parents may be wondering: How do I know if my child is addicted to his or her smartphone? And how can I prevent problematic overuse?
The Smartphone Itch
Why do we get so uncomfortable when we can’t use our mobile devices?
Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone?
I’ve gone gray, and it’s great. In an effort to break my smartphone addiction, I’ve joined a small group of people turning their phone screens to grayscale — cutting out the colors and going with a range of shades from white to black. First popularized by the tech ethicist Tristan Harris, the goal of sticking to shades of gray is to make the glittering screen a little less stimulating.
You're Addicted to Your Smartphone. This Company Thinks It Can Change That
Every day, we check our phones an average of 47 times–every 19 minutes of our waking lives–and spend roughly five hours total peering at their silvery glow. There’s no good consensus about what all this screen time means for children’s brains, adolescents’ moods or the future of our democratic institutions.
Disconnect to Reconnect. How Living Without My Phone Helped Me Reconnect to Myself.
Is your phone using you? How many times a day do you mindlessly check your phone or browse through Facebook? If you have never been without your phone, give it a try for a couple of hours a day. Next time you meet some friends or family members for dinner, leave your phone at home. Break free from the ball and chain. Fully engage with your life and the life of those around you. Not with your phone’s ‘life.’
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Here Are Some Simple Tips To Battle Smartphone Addiction
Sometime in the last few years, a new word entered the lexicon — phubbing. It refers to snubbing a person you are with by concentrating on your smartphone screen instead of that person. Screen addiction has become an epidemic — nowadays, most if not all people instinctively tend to check their phones every second minute. It could be to check the score of their favourite team or to play 'just one' session of their favourite game, among scores of other reasons.
How Barbara Corcoran Broke her Smartphone Addiction
The cutthroat ‘Shark Tank’ investor and real estate mogul on the rejuvenating joys of cycling and the way a Braun clock cut down her screen time.
How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds
So you bought that new iPhone. If you are like the typical owner, you’ll be pulling your phone out and using it some 80 times a day, according to data Apple collects. That means you’ll be consulting the glossy little rectangle nearly 30,000 times over the coming year. Your new phone, like your old one, will become your constant companion and trusty factotum—your teacher, secretary, confessor, guru. The two of you will be inseparable.
How to Break Your Smartphone Addiction
If you're a millennial like me or an avid smartphone user of any age, I'm sure you'd agree you would benefit from learning how to break your smartphone addiction. Smartphones have become our digital appendages, where we can tweet, text, snap a picture, shop, watch videos and more within a matter of seconds. While this accessibility can be convenient, it can also be overwhelming and even detrimental in the event of cell phone addiction.
I Tried to Cure My Smartphone Addiction Using My Smartphone
There are apps for that! And they're mostly worthless.
It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting
The three design elements that make smartphones so hard to put down.
Phone Addiction Is Real -- And So Are Its Mental Health Risks
A lot of us must be wondering if we're hooked on our tech: Searches for “phone addiction” have risen steadily in the past five years, according to Google Trends, and “social media addiction” trails it closely.
The Binge Breaker
Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.
The creators of the iPhone are worried we’re too addicted to technology
Yet for all the benefits that the iPhone helped deliver, our current level of unprecedented digital connection has left quite a few critics dismayed and concerned over our screen addiction and our inability to go even a few minutes without unlocking our devices. The most surprising among this group happens to be the iPhone’s original creators.
The iPhone Intervention
Is smartphone addiction a diagnosis or just an excuse?
Three Simple Ways to Kick Your Smartphone Addiction
Technology promised to make living easier—but complicated it instead. The answer? More tech that helps curb your reliance on your phone.
Smartphone Detox: How To Power Down In A Wired World
If the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov were alive today, what would he say about smartphones? He might not think of them as phones at all, but instead as remarkable tools for understanding how technology can manipulate our brains.
Center for Humane Technology
Technology is hijacking our minds and society. Our world-class team of deeply concerned former tech insiders and CEOs intimately understands the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our minds. Demanding new design for technology that maximizes how well we spend our time, not how much time we spend.
Thrive Global
Thrive Global is helping the world’s leading enterprises and their people build healthy habits through inspirational storytelling and actionable Microsteps to help navigate this challenging time with less stress and greater resilience
Go Gray
Going gray changed my life - if this is something you're struggling with, give it a try and join the movement.
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