Podcasts · Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files
Ep: 258 - 5 Reasons Why You're Addicted to Your Phone and What to do About it
· 22 min
Episode Ep: 258 - 5 Reasons Why You're Addicted to Your Phone and What to do About it
Why do we find it so hard to put down our phones? I'll give you 5 reasons drawn directly from psychological theories on how we learn, how teenagers are strongly affected by reward and how we are all drawn in by mystery. There is of course no easy answer for how to get teens to put down their phones but I'll share what I'm doing with my teenagers.
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