Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Why can’t we get off of our phones? #shorts #tech

Name: Why can’t we get off of our phones? #shorts #tech
Uploaded: 2023-08-04T14:00:09+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short YouTube video (shorts) by Nir Eyal explaining that internal triggers driving phone/app use are most often negative emotions. Eyal lists…

4 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (shorts) by Nir Eyal explaining that internal triggers driving phone/app use are most often negative emotions. Eyal lists examples—boredom, loneliness, dissatisfaction, fatigue, uncertainty—and states these feelings prompt largely automatic turning to apps and devices with little conscious thought.

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These internal triggers are most frequently emotions, but not just any emotion. They are specifically negative emotions. Negative emotions are these most oftenly occurring internal triggers. So what we do when we're feeling bored or lonesome or dissatisfied or fatigued or uncertain, what we do when we experience these negative emotions prompts us to action, prompts us to turn to these apps, to these devices, where with little or no conscious thought.