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Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
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Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.

These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.
Lots more at link.
Posted by: gorb 2010-06-16
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=299001