Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being
Abstract
Every day, billions of us receive smartphone notifications. Designed to distract, these interruptions capture and monetize our time and attention. Though smartphones are incredibly helpful, their current notification systems impose underappreciated, yet considerable, mental costs; like a slot machine, they exploit our inherent psychological bias for variable rewards. With an app that we developed, we conducted a randomized field experiment (n =...
Paper Details
Title
Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being
Published Date
Dec 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
101
Pages
84 - 94
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