Why We Can't Stop Scrolling
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Published 2019-11-20
Psychologists use something called a Skinner box to study behavior in animals. Some Skinner boxes feature a lever for an animal to push. Sometimes, food will be dispensed upon pushing the lever. Other times, nothing happens. So the animal learns to push the lever repeatedly until food is delivered.
There’s something similar happening when we scroll through our news feeds. We’re looking for a reward as well, in the form of a funny or exciting post. Once we find this, it’s right back to scrolling in search of the next one.
So next time you're scrolling through social media, you can be aware of why you're doing it!
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All Comments (21)
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Stop scrolling. No rewards here :D
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It’s driving me insane I literally get into like a zone where I just don’t stop
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It starts with awareness.
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We all are mice. They have made us.
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Discpline it is. Scrolling too much is a waste of time. Use your time wisely.
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Excellent presentation! Thank you for bringing us a much needed awareness.
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Youtube was my safe haven but now we have shorts we cant turn off. This needs to end
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I’ll pick up my phone to look at the weather and end up forgetting about that and scrolling for hours.
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Always giving us beautiful knowledge
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Thank you , i love it
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I already knew social media addiction had something to do with conditioning mixed with random rewards but I'm still here watching this and being trapped on yt :""D
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Well said.
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Phenomenal video to explain this to kids! Thank you!
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Found this video by scrolling on my phone at 1:50am
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Thx!
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Soooo true
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Awesome explanation
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Yap that's true
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Good vid
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thank you❤