How your phone hooks you: dopamine, infinite scroll and the slot machine in your pocket
Notifications: what a single buzz does to your attention
Your phone buzzes on the desk, and you do not even look at it. You keep working as if nothing happened. In a 2015 study, people who did just that still paid a price.
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You are at work, busy, and you have not thought of the joke app all day. Then your phone buzzes: "New joke from someone you follow!"
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You do not even look. You turn the phone over and keep working, sure that nothing happened.
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