Pay attention! Our attention spans are shrinking 07:39. Does it ever seem like something is going on with our attention spans? The world's #1 most downloaded app is TikTok, an infinite stream of ...

A shifting attention is an evolutionary feature, not a bug. Our brains are hardwired to quickly filter information and hone in on potential threats or changes in what’s happening around us.

Our attention spans appear to be in decline, but what role is technology playing in this phenomenon? Studies have shown that people spend only around 47 seconds, on average, focusing on any given ...

The pandemic has accelerated shifting attention spans and made it easier for people to satiate themselves with shorter-form content instead. "This struggle was mounting since before COVID," says ...

“Attention and working memory have often been discussed as being two sides of the same coin, but that has mainly been lip service. This paper shows how true this is and also shows us the ‘coin’ — the ...

And controlling that attention can be the key to your happiness. Via Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life:. Kahneman says that both the Dalai Lama and the Penn positive psychologist Martin ...

Attention comes prior to other aspects of speech and communication that we associate with power—persuasion, argumentation, information. Before you can persuade, ...

The attention industry needs people who are in a distracted state, or who are perpetually distractable, and thus open to advertising. And so it has a strong influence on the content of the media ...

Attention education is the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves, for one another, for democracy. Skip to content Skip to site index ...

Social media offers a wealth of signals for understanding financial market behavior, and the key to leveraging them may lie in distinguishing between how investors feel and what they choose to focus ...

Rosin: I’m Hanna Rosin, and this week on the Radio Atlantic: the war for your attention. You probably know Chris Hayes best as a host on MSNBC. He’s the author of a new book: The Sirens ...