From the University of Houston press release: With seemingly endless emails, phone calls and meetings, it’s no secret that working in an office environment can be quite stressful. Understanding how stress manifests by exposing the…
From the Ohio State University press release: We live in a world of distractions. We multitask our way through our days. We wear watches that alert us to text messages. We carry phones that buzz…
From the University of California – Riverside press release: Tetris could be the salve for a worried mind. The venerable video game was used in a recent experiment to create a state of “flow” —…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Our digital lives may be making us more distracted, distant and drained, according to research presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association. For instance, even…
From the University of Sussex press release: ‘Inattentional smell blindness’, or inattentional anosmia, has been proven to exist in a study from the University of Sussex. Just as it has previously been found that people…
From the University of Southern California press release: Older adults appear more easily distracted by irrelevant information than younger people when they experience stress or powerful emotions — and a specific network in the brain…
From the University of Texas at San Antonio press release: A new study by Murtuza Jadliwala, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Texas at San Antonio, examines wearable technology and whether it…
From the University of Montreal press release: Watching too much television at age 2 can translate into poorer eating habits in adolescence and poorer performance in school, researchers at Université de Montréal’s School of Psychoeducation…
From the Frontiers press release: New research identifies age, gender, personality and how often people drive as potential risk factors for becoming distracted while driving. Young men, extroverted or neurotic people, and people who drive…
From the University of Utah press release: Many of the infotainment features in most 2017 vehicles are so distracting they should not be enabled while a vehicle is in motion, according to a new study by…