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Unhook from Your Phone Addiction

By Judson Brewer — 2019

Hacking into the rewards-based learning system that our brains often operate on so we can regain control of our attention.

Read on www.mindful.org

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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The Brain Equivalent of Global Warming

Nobody’s proven that digital addiction rots your brain.

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How to Break a Phone Addiction

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

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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.

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Addicted to Twitter? Here's Why

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

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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.

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Seeing Beyond the Screen

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

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