Since you are reading this blog, you are likely old enough to remember “The Before.” You remember a time before social media, smartphones, tablets, streaming…
It’s been too long since I’ve posted a blog on the APACenter website! I have been blogging lately at Psychology Today under Tech Happy Life.…
PSA: Technology Addiction, This Is Your Brain On Screens If you are old enough, you might remember the old public service commercial about a frying…
The seductive pull of screens that you might not know about Blame it on supernormal stimuli In my previous blogs, I describe the role…
The pull of screens: we all experience it, we all feel it on a daily basis, but why? Screens have a strange power over us,…
So, I was at the gym the other day, and I couldn’t help but notice this twenty-something year old guy next to me who was…
Technology can be so alluring because it provide an easy way to get many of our psychological needs met (i.e., for belonging, power/esteem, freedom, fun).…
A friend told me about this news program from PBS’s Frontline, and I’d say it is a “must watch” for those interested in how technology…
As cited in a recent Reuters news article on MSNBC, a study by British scientists published in the journal Psychopathology found that people who spend…
The temptations to spend in our capitalist society are enormous. More is better, right? If we only had that shiny widget, then we would be…