Although acknowledging that cell phones and pagers are a convenience for students and parents, the organization notes “From an educational perspective, cell phones primarily present another disruption to the educational environment on a day-to-day basis.”
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“Your kid is not weak-willed because he can’t get off his phone,” Brown says. “Your kid’s brain is being engineered to get him to stay on his phone.”
The headquarters of Boundless Mind looks as if it were created by a set designer to satisfy a cultural cliché. The tech startup is run out of a one-car garage a few blocks from California’s Venice Beach. On the morning I visited, in March, it was populated by a […]
“..positive social stimuli will similarly result in a release of dopamine, reinforcing whatever behavior preceded it. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that rewarding social stimuli—laughing faces, positive recognition by our peers, messages from loved ones—activate the same dopaminergic reward pathways. Smartphones have provided us with a virtually unlimited supply of social stimuli, both positive and negative. Every notification, whether it’s a text message, a “like” on Instagram, or a Facebook notification, has the potential to be a positive social stimulus and dopamine influx.”
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A smartphone is a cellphone with advanced features, so the two terms aren’t interchangeable, even if people sometimes use them that way. Technically, a smartphone is a cellphone, but a cellphone is not smart. Think of a smartphone as a miniature computer that can place and receive calls. Most […]
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(Reuters Health) – Getting teens to put down their phones when they get behind the wheel is no easy task, but a small study suggests that parents may have more luck when they offer cash rewards. Researchers examined data from an online survey of 152 teens who owned smartphones […]
“There’s an overwhelming majority of things said online that end in periods rather than question marks. Empathy often ends in question marks. It doesn’t state; it asks.”
The flip side of text-based conversations is that they “can be impoverished. You miss facial expressions, body language, emotional perceptions—face-to-face cues provide a great deal of information that helps us make important social judgments”
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Researchers publishing in the April 2017 edition of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research describe a series of experiments in which 520 college students performed tasks requiring focus, attention, and novel problem-solving skills. Some were asked to leave their smartphones in another room. Others were allowed to keep them where they usually do (such as in their pocket or purse). A third group was asked to set their phones on the desk next to them.
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Younger smartphone owners tend to experience a wider range of emotions vis-à-vis their phone compared with older users — from positive ones like “happy” or “grateful,” to more negative feelings like “distracted” and “angry.”
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