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
Habits make smartphone use more pervasive
Claim this source supports
“Much smartphone use consists of brief, repetitive checking habits that emerge and are reinforced by quickly accessible informational rewards.”
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