Interruption research consistently finds that the cost of a notification isn't the seconds it takes to glance — it's the minutes of refocusing that follow. What workplace studies say about notifications and productivity, and how to buy back deep-work hours.
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Infinite feeds run on the same reward schedule as slot machines — a mechanism psychologists mapped decades before smartphones existed. What the research on variable rewards and dopamine says about why scrolling is so sticky, and why the fixes that work look nothing like willpower.
Read the articleHeavy screen use doesn't make you less intelligent — but constant switching taxes the attention systems intelligence depends on. What studies on attention residue and media multitasking actually show about screens, focus, and measured cognitive performance.
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