Developing an individual profile of attentional control strategy

Irons, Jessica; Leber, Andrew B.

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“…Up to now, studies have shown individual differences in both SMU and distraction: Adolescents vary in the extent to which they use social media, how they use it, and for what purposes (Rideout & Fox, 2018), and they differ in their attentional control strategies and their level of distraction (Irons & Leber, 2020). However, what remains unknown is whether the within-person association between SMU and distraction also varies from adolescent to adolescent.…”

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Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents

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A widespread concern in society is that adolescents experience an increased inability to concentrate and sustain attention because they are continuously distracted by social media. The current experience sampling method (ESM) study examined whether adolescents who use more social media than their peers experience more distraction (between-person association), whether social media use (SMU) and distraction cofluctuate within adolescents (momentary within-person associations), and to what extent this within-person association differs from person to person (person-specific associations). With a sample of 383 adolescents (M age = 14.11), who together completed 35,099 ESM surveys (73% compliance), we found both a positive between-person association (β = .31) and a positive momentary within-person association (β = .12) of SMU with distraction. The momentary within-person association differed from adolescent to adolescent: While SMU and distraction were positively associated among 82.5% of all adolescents, they were not associated among 15.7% of the adolescents, and negatively associated among 1.8% of the adolescents. Additional analyses on the direction of the effect showed that the within-person effect of SMU on subsequent levels of distraction was somewhat stronger (β = .05) than the effect of distraction on subsequent levels of SMU (β = .03).

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“…Previous research demonstrated the stability of information sampling strategies within‐ (Boot, Becic, & Kramer, 2009 ) but a considerable variation between individuals (Irons & Leber, 2020 ), to the extent that one's attentional patterns may constitute a “signature” distinguishing her from others (Bargary et al., 2017 ). Despite these individual differences, researchers have successfully examined how the average characteristics of the sampling process, like the shape of the mouse click search path, are influenced by environmental features such as the spatial distribution of the targets (Kerster et al., 2016 ).…”

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Great Minds Think Alike? Spatial Search Processes Can Be More Idiosyncratic When Guided by More Accurate Information

Król

2022

Cognitive Science

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Existing research demonstrates that pre-decisional information sampling strategies are often stable within a given person while varying greatly across people. However, it remains largely unknown what drives these individual differences, that is, why in some circumstances we collect information more idiosyncratically. In this brief report, we present a pre-registered online study of spatial search. Using a novel technique that combines machine-learning dimension reduction and sequence alignment algorithms, we quantify the extent to which the shape and temporal properties of a search trajectory are idiosyncratic. We show that this metric increases (trajectories become more idiosyncratic) when a person is better informed about the likely location of the search target, while poorly informed individuals seem more likely to resort to default search routines determined bottom-up by the properties of the search field. This shows that when many people independently attempt to solve a task in a similar way, they are not necessarily "onto something."

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“…Some debate surrounding their work has ensued [12], but we can credit the study with the powerful message that we ignore strategy at our peril. Investigating it is vital for developing complete models of attention, particularly in the real world, when strategy use is least constrained (for reviews emphasizing the importance of studying attentional strategy, see [13,14]).…”

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A methodological toolbox for investigating attentional strategy

Leber

Irons

2019

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Strategy is a crucial determinant for how attention is controlled. In recent years, researchers have deployed a growing variety of manipulations and dependent measures in service of understanding strategy. This work has revealed a striking degree of diversity and suboptimality in the use of attention, and it prompts the realization that more research on strategy is needed in order to fully understand and explain how attention works. Here, we highlight several approaches to investigate strategy, in what can be considered a "methodological toolbox" for researchers. These methods can be customized and combined flexibly in what we hope will be a continued expansion of inquiry into this important domain.

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Developing an individual profile of attentional control strategy

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents

Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents

Great Minds Think Alike? Spatial Search Processes Can Be More Idiosyncratic When Guided by More Accurate Information

A methodological toolbox for investigating attentional strategy

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