A typical teen’s day includes up to nine hours of texting, gaming, watching videos, and posting on multiple social networks — even while doing homework. It’s enough to make you wonder: Is my kid ...

A Personal Perspective: Telling ourselves that devices and platforms “hijack” our brains plays right into Big Tech’s hands. Does repeating a falsehood make it true? It seems so, at least when it comes ...

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...

Using this many devices at once doesn’t mean a person is addicted to technology. Pressmaster/Shutterstock.com I am a psychologist who has worked with teens and ...

The use of artificial intelligence and digital systems is emerging as a method to understand, identify and respond to addiction, demonstrating technology’s capacity to aid public health initiatives, ...