{"id":98,"date":"2026-08-08T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:35:39","slug":"banger-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"banger doc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had this study confused with <em>Feeds, Feelings &amp; Focus <\/em>and was really sad I lost it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">quotes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The intervention improved mental health, subjective well-being, and objectively measured ability to sustain attention; 91% of participants improved on at least one of these outcomes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These results provide causal evidence that blocking mobile internet can improve important psychological outcomes, and suggest that maintaining the status quo of constant connection to the internet may be detrimental to time use, cognitive functioning, and well-being.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;90% of American adults own a smartphone, and the average user spends 4.6 h per day on their device. At the same time, there is increasing public concern about how this technology might negatively affect people: half of American smartphone users\u2014and more than four out of \ufb01ve users under age 30\u2014worry that they use their device too much&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Blocking-mobile-internet-on-smartphones-improves-sustained-attention-mental-health-and-subjective-well-being-pgaf017.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being - pgaf017.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9a8c7922-6fe3-46a6-8c3d-44317e45fd99\" href=\"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Blocking-mobile-internet-on-smartphones-improves-sustained-attention-mental-health-and-subjective-well-being-pgaf017.pdf\">Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being &#8211; pgaf017<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Blocking-mobile-internet-on-smartphones-improves-sustained-attention-mental-health-and-subjective-well-being-pgaf017.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9a8c7922-6fe3-46a6-8c3d-44317e45fd99\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-doc","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}