How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

by Catherine Price

Our phones are packed with subtle positive reinforcements that trigger dopamine spritzes that keep us coming back for more.

But what really gets us hooked isn’t consistency; it’s unpredictability.

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“A post with zero likes wasn’t just privately painful, but also a kind of public condemnation.”

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the more our phones feel like reflections of ourselves (and our specialness), the more time we’re going to want to spend on them.

“What is striking,” wrote the authors, “is that simply being alone with their own thoughts for 15 minutes was apparently so aversive that it drove many participants to self-administer an electric shock that they had earlier said they would pay to avoid.”