Students at 13 schools in one district will soon find out if they will have to give up their phones when they head to class this school year. Channel 2′s Tom Jones was the only reporter there as the ...

Smartphones may be incredible tools, but far too many of us spend way too much time on them. Increasingly, mental health experts warn that cell phone addiction can create real problems for users.

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Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school.

Dr. Alyson Meister, a professor at IMD Business School in Switzerland, researched the behavioral science behind what has us all glued to our phones and published her findings in the Harvard Business ...

One thing I love about teaching is learning from my students. I started my career at a junior college in California in the early 2000s, teaching Informal Logic (critical thinking), which fostered lots ...

Smartphone addiction is referred to by various terms, such as "smartphone dependence", "problematic smartphone use,” and “nomophobia” (no mobile phone phobia). Problematic smartphone use is marked by ...

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You’re out for a delightful, long-anticipated lunch with your friends or co-workers. The conversation is lively and upbeat, when suddenly someone in your group pulls out their cell phone to take a ...