It's been four months since Australia banned under-16s from using social media, and ever since, a growing number of countries ...

It's called the infinite scroll—a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads content as you reach the bottom of the page. Handy? Yes. Clever? Also yes.

In the new book The Practice of Attention: Cultivating Presence in a Distracted World, Cody Cook-Parrott says it’s no longer realistic to think we can win back our focus through screentime limits or ...

The effect was first described by Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927. She was inspired to study the phenomenon after her professor, prominent psychologist Kurt Lewin, noticed that a waiter ...

Social media use is widespread among Seattle metro-area adults. The latest survey data from market-research giant Nielsen shows around 92% of adults, or roughly 3 million people, have visited at least ...

Dr. Abeni El-Amin and Terry Dumphord are the co-hosts and executive producers of the Ricochet Effect Podcast. The objective of the podcast is to focus on community issues and to improve the social ...

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social ...

When life feels especially stressful and overwhelming, many of us automatically try to zone out and dissociate. Whether that means absent-mindedly scrolling on our phones, taking a long shower or ...