Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. In 2011, 1.3 million auto accidents in the U.S. involved cell phones – about ...

There were more than five hundred road deaths involving at least one speeding driver in 2023 (513) compared to 2019 (412).

Your phone is constantly buzzing, your computer screen keeps showing new email notifications and that coworker stopped by yet again to ask for a project update. Distractions live everywhere. If you’re ...

The current study compared the effectiveness of distraction, an antecedent-focused strategy that involves diverting an individual’s attention away from affective terms, and expressive suppression, a ...

If you tend to do other things or get distracted while eating dinner, you may be running the risk of over-consuming everyday pleasures later, possibly because the distraction caused you to enjoy ...

It seems we’re all checking our phones constantly these days. But all that time spent on our phones leaves little time for anything else. We need time to think in order to come up with novel solutions ...

A new study challenges the idea that distraction is necessarily a problem for learning. Researchers found that if attention was as divided during recall of a motor task as it was during learning the ...