Addicted to Smartphones

Smartphones with the new technology they can give access to, makes a new adventure waiting to happen. As it is today people have become addicted to smart phones. The difference between an addiction and other kinds of compulsive behavior, loosely, is that addictions cause people do something compulsively even though it's detrimental to their lives.

With new studies, Nancy Petry, a researcher at the University of Connecticut Health Center's department of psychiatry says smartphone lovers may not meet the full criteria for having an addiction. Smartphones are like slot machines for the brain. It taps into the associative learning pathway. Associative learning means that your brain is trained to make you feel either good or bad after a certain event. A new event on a social media site or even a text or missed call on a ones phone can access a similar feeling. In a survey of 200 students at Stanford University, 34% rated themselves as being addicted to their phones, and 32% of the remaining participants worried they someday would be addicted.

The debate on addiction to smartphones will be debated for a while now. With technology advancing in ways that would cause more addiction studies are continuing to grow in this subject. Are you addicted to your smartphone? In what ways does your smartphone cause an addiction for you and what ways does it not? 




 



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