Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span

Monday, April 15, 2019 - 08:50 in Psychology & Sociology

The negative effects of social media and a hectic news cycle on our attention span has been an on-going discussion in recent years–but there’s been a lack of empirical data supporting claims of a ‘social acceleration’. A new study in Nature Communications finds that our collective attention span is indeed narrowing, and that this effect occurs – […]

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