Cognitive scientists explain what’s driving the precipitous decline in our ability to focus—and offer evidence-based ...

Try a screen-free meal. Eat without scrolling, listening to podcasts or watching videos; let it be just the food and your ...

Attention spans are shrinking in a scrolling culture. What art history, neuroscience, and college admissions reveal about rebuilding focus.

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Distraction is natural. Paying attention is hard—and always has been. Make focusing easier by recognizing that it is a ...

Plenty of AI-powered media companies are eager to claim your attention. With intention, we can use AI without surrendering ...

And the average length of a shot in a movie is now under five seconds. These days, multi-tasking while you're tasking is the norm among young people. Just ask counselor Lauren Barnett and her ...

There are so many crises that make the news, all of which are digested in bite-size morsels: political divisiveness, crime and policing, race relations, environmentalism, and the list goes on. What’s ...

Our attention spans appear to be in decline, but what role is technology playing in this phenomenon? Studies have shown that people spend only around 47 seconds, on average, focusing on any given ...

Mind the Gap messaging. Words reshuffled. Photo: "Mind/the/gap" by futureshape is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center ...