ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Addicted to Twitter? Here's Why

By Judson Brewer — 2019

Why we get hooked and what we can do to break the habit.

Read on www.psychologytoday.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Why People Keep Scrolling When They Say They Are Done with Facebook

Why is it so hard to keep off the app if you have decided you are done with Facebook? Because the platform taps into our societal needs and biological drives to keep us coming back for more, experts say.

Article
Madeline Holcombe
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All into Dopamine Addicts

According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

Article
Jamie Waters
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Q&A: Anna Lembke on Smartphone Technology Addiction

Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke M.D. sat down with The Daily to discuss her clinical work and how it relates to the increasing prevalence of technology addiction.

Article
Elaine Park
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Question We’ve Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media

I’m not sure we should be so quick to give up on interrogating the necessity of these technologies in our lives, especially when they impact the well-being of our children.

Article
Cal Newport
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Brain Equivalent of Global Warming

Nobody’s proven that digital addiction rots your brain.

Article
Edward Hallowell
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How to Break a Phone Addiction

By now, nearly everyone knows we can be addicted to our digital devices.

Article
Arthur C. Brooks
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

Why it feels like everything is going haywire? Even if social media could be cured of its outrage-enhancing effects, it would still raise problems for the stability of democracy.

Article
Jonathan Haidt,Tobias Rose-Stockwell
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

A Noted Philosopher’s Argument for Signing Off Social Media … and Enjoying ‘the Brief Time’ You Have Left

Increasingly, it seems like anxiety about social media is as much a hallmark of modern life as social media itself. It’s filling our short lives with meaningless clutter.

Article
Caitlin Dewey
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Seeing Beyond the Screen

Yael Shy invites millennials to bring some mindfulness into their digital lives.

Article
Yael Shy
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

How Our Phones Disconnect Us When We’re Together

Attempts have been made to come up with rules of phone etiquette during face-to-face interactions. But why do these devices that are meant to connect us when we’re far apart seem to cause so much division when we’re close together?

Article
Genavee Brown
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Social Media Addiction