There are so many crises that make the news, all of which are digested in bite-size morsels: political divisiveness, crime and policing, race relations, environmentalism, and the list goes on. What’s ...

James tells us to guard against partiality. That means rejecting disdain for mothers, blue-collar workers, and others the ...

Exercise interventions, such as cognitively engaging exercise programs, significantly improve sustained attention in children and adolescents with ADHD.

Plenty of AI-powered media companies are eager to claim your attention. With intention, we can use AI without surrendering ...

Mind the Gap messaging. Words reshuffled. Photo: "Mind/the/gap" by futureshape is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center ...

No, the average human attention span is not shorter than a goldfish's. But research suggests the average attention span may be decreasing, and that may be problematic, says Northeastern University ...

And the average length of a shot in a movie is now under five seconds. These days, multi-tasking while you're tasking is the norm among young people. Just ask counselor Lauren Barnett and her ...

Let's face it: Even as business leaders, we can’t pay attention to everything at once. Doing so would be overwhelming. So, we filter things out. It’s the way we function in the world. We operate on ...

Our attention spans appear to be in decline, but what role is technology playing in this phenomenon? Studies have shown that people spend only around 47 seconds, on average, focusing on any given ...