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
Directing smartphone use through the self-nudge app one sec
Claim this source supports
“A brief deliberate pause and reflection prompt before an app opens led users to abandon roughly a third of app openings across six weeks, with attempted openings also declining.”
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