New small-scale study has found that some people get so absorbed by social media that they enter a dissociative state that makes it easy to lose track of time. The research was presented at acm_chi - via healthing_ca healthing health healthnews h...
Studies indicate exercise may help improve the the links in the nervous system between separate brain areas, improving brain health.While the mental process of disconnecting from one’s thoughts is commonly associated with traumatic encounters, there are many different types of dissociation, some that happen multiple times throughout the day when intense focus leads to a wandering mind.
To explore the issue, researchers recruited 43 Twitter users from across the U.S. and asked them to use an app they developed called Chirp. The app, which connected to the Twitter accounts of participants and allowed them to tweet and scroll normally, also let researchers implement features that controlled the user experience.
“We used their rating as a way to measure dissociation,” Baughan said. “It captured the experience of being really absorbed and not paying attention to what’s around you or of scrolling on your phone without paying attention to what you’re doing.” The team also experimented with several intervention strategies, which they described as internal and external . Participants spent one week with no interventions, one week with each and a final week with both at the same time.
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