1:12 Behavior
Why You Check Without Deciding
Phones are hard to put down because unpredictable rewards condition the act of checking itself; the compulsion lives in the variable-reward schedule, not in any particular piece of content.
Source
Beyond Self-Report: Tools to Compare Estimated and Real-World Smartphone Use
Claim this source supports
“Participants used phones a mean of about 85 times per day, mostly in bursts under 30 seconds, while estimating roughly half that; frequency estimates did not correlate with logged use.”
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