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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 ...

A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about distracted driving. Federal crash data shows drivers ages 25 to 34 ...

A study has found that parents being distracted by smartphones can negatively affect their children’s emotional development, ...

Recently my research team observed nearly 300 middle school, high school, and university students studying something important for a mere 15 minutes in their natural environments. We were interested ...

Parents often blame kids for being on their phones at the dinner table, but a new study suggests adults may be the bigger distraction.

Watching distracting videos helps children with cancer avoid the need for anesthesia during radiation treatments, a Stanford Medicine-led study has found. Video-based distraction also reduces children ...

At first glance, it appears to be a foregone conclusion. Studying with distractions is disingenuous. Yet, there are scores of students who attest to studying while background music is playing. In fact ...