How your phone hooks you: dopamine, infinite scroll and the slot machine in your pocket
How to reduce screen time: the small phone changes that worked in studies
In studies, a few small changes to the phone itself cut how much people used it, and one of them takes about ten seconds to switch on. What do they change, and why do they work?
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One month after that first night, you made a plan: just use your phone less. It worked for two days. On the third day, the jokes won again.
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Miva reads her list of hooks again. Every one of them was built into the phone, not into you. So maybe the fix belongs in the phone too.
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