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The Science of Attention and Distraction

The Science of Attention and Distraction

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos vor 6 Jahren

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Your smartphone might be making you miserable and you might not
even realize it. These machines are technological marvels, but
our addiction to them is causing us to miss out on the things
happening all around us. Dr. Laurie explores the science of
in-attentional blindness—our brain's remarkable ability to miss
things that are right in front of us—and how our phones impact
our already limited attention. Psychologist Liz Dunn, whose
research shows that even the mere presence of a phone during
social gatherings can reduce our enjoyment of them, and science
journalist Catherine Price, founder of Screen/Life Balance and
author of How To Break Up With Your Phone, explain the science of
attention and distraction, and provide useful tips for mindfully
using technology.

Experts Mentioned:

- Christopher Chabris, Professor & Director of Decision
Sciences, Geisinger Research Institute

- Daniel Simons, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign

- Brian Scholl, Professor of Psychology, Yale University

- Brian's Lab Research Projects

- Elizabeth Dunn, Professor of Psychology, University of British
Columbia

Resources Mentioned:

- The Inivisble Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by
Chrisopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (2010)

- "Gorillas in our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for
Dynamic Events," (Perception, 1999)

- "A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind," (Science, 2010)

- "No Time to Kill: How Smartphone is Pushing Chewing Gum out of
Fashion," (The Economic Times, 2017)

- "Cell Phone Use Latency in a Midwestern USA University
Population," (Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science,
2017)

Related episodes of "The Happiness Lab":

- "Good Screens and Bad Screens"

- "Tame Those Devices: 10 Tips to Achieve Digital Balance"

- "How to Kick Bad Habits (and Start Good Ones)"

- "Reconnect with the Moment"

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