Social Media, Dopamine, and Stress: Converging Pathways – Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science
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Social Media, Dopamine, and Stress: Converging Pathways – Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science
Unaware use = reflexively using your phone without noticing when or why you started.
R u reading this caption because the video started to get boring?
Ur gonna check the comments next huh?
It’s ok.
That’s your brain looking for more... See more
instagram.comDigital addiction isn’t a phone problem.
It’s an emotion regulation problem.
People use their devices as a way to avoid stress or unpleasant feelings.
To break the addiction, you have to have a different way to recover from stress and regulate your emotions.___LI... See more
Julie Fratantonisubstack.comWhenever you are tempted to put your phone down, the site keeps drip-feeding you the kind of material that it has learned, from your past behavior, keeps you scrolling. Older technologies—like the printed page, or the television—can’t target you in this way. Social media knows exactly where to drill. It learns your most distractible spots and targe
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