Computers in Human Behavior

There's a lot of research showing that when a video game began to be a big thing in the 1990s, mental health among those people who had access to a computer improved.

Gray cites a 2015 study from the journal Computers and Human Behavior that found a correlation between frequent online gaming and better psychosocial well-being in adolescents.

The moral panic about video games was related to aggression.

People were worried boys were attracted to these violent games, which would create an epidemic of violence.

Unusual.

But yes, I saw this in a piece from the University of Nottingham, and it's some new research that was published in Computers in Human Behavior, if you're interested in the-

Oh, my favorite publication

... journal title.

Here's my awareness question.

When was the last time you chose where your attention went before something else chose for you? Another study done in June of 26, published in the Computers and Human Behavior, found that social media notifications produced a temporary slowdown in cognitive processing lasting roughly around seven seconds.

The disruption varied depending on things like how relevant the notification was and habitual smartphone use.

Now, that study does not tell us that seven seconds here, seven seconds there will destroy your brain.