How Phones Are Making Us More Lonely and Addicted with Meredith David, PhD
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The episode discusses the impact of smartphone and social media use on human connection and loneliness with Dr. Meredith David.
What is the social cost of looking at your phone when in the company of other people? Is smartphone and social media use making us less connected, more lonely, and addicted to the endless videos on our feed? On this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry discusses the ways people are becoming more attached to their phones and less connected to others with Dr. Meredith David, Associate Professor of Marketing at Baylor University. Drawing on her diverse portfolio of research, Dr. David shares ...
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