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Logging off in the age of hyperconnectivity

Psychology professor Kostadin Kushlev researches how smartphones and social media shape our mental health.

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee is on a mission to log off. Together, they examine the inverse relationship between happiness and excess “screen time” and ways to reduce our daily fixation on digital devices.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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