Technology Habits: Progress, Problems, and Prospects

Bayer, Joseph B.; LaRose, Robert

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97529-0_7

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“…Second, this could reflect a potential inadequacy of the interventions alone to sufficiently challenge long-held habits and lead to behaviour change. It has been claimed that where screen behaviours are habitual, these are inherently more difficult to change and when they involve simpler actions, require constant targeting to produce effects (Bayer and LaRose 2018). Third, effectiveness and long-term sustainability of results may be impeded by the choice of reduction only in time spent on media, as a main outcome variable in these interventions.…”

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The Role of Recreational Online Activities in School-Based Screen Time Sedentary Behaviour Interventions for Adolescents: A Systematic and Critical Literature Review

Throuvala

Griffiths

Rennoldson

et al. 2020

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Sedentary behaviours are highly associated with obesity and other important health outcomes in adolescence. This paper reviews screen time and its role within school-based behavioural interventions targeting adolescents between the years 2007 and 2019. A systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines was conducted across five major databases to identify interventions targeting screen time-in addition to TV/DVD viewing. The review identified a total of 30 papers analysing 15 studies across 16 countries aiming at addressing reduction of recreational screen time (internet use and gaming) in addition to television/DVD viewing. All of the interventions focused exclusively on behaviour change, targeting in the majority both reduction of sedentary behaviours along with strategies to increase physical activity levels. A mix of intervention effects were found in the reviewed studies. Findings suggest aiming only for reduction in time spent on screen-based behaviour within interventions could be a limited strategy in ameliorating excessive screen use, if not targeted, in parallel, with strategies to address other developmental, contextual and motivational factors that are key components in driving the occurrence and maintenance of adolescent online behaviours. Additionally, it raises the need for a differential treatment and assessment of each online activity within the interventions due to the heterogeneity of the construct of screen time. Recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of school-based sedentary behaviour interventions and implications for public policy are discussed.

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The Role of Recreational Online Activities in School-Based Screen Time Sedentary Behaviour Interventions for Adolescents: A Systematic and Critical Literature Review

Throuvala

Griffiths

Rennoldson

et al. 2020

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Our account builds on prior models of media habits (Bayer & LaRose, 2018), technology habits (LaRose, 2010; Venkatesh et al., 2012), and interactive media habits (LaRose, 2015). Yet, our focus on the psychology behind habitual social media use extends beyond classifying habit automaticity as a kind of ineffective self‐regulation (LaRose, 2010).…”

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Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures

Anderson

Wood

2020

Consumer Psychology Review

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If platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the engines of social media use, what is the gasoline? The answer can be found in the psychological dynamics behind consumer habit formation and performance. In fact, the financial success of different social media sites is closely tied to the daily‐use habits they create among users. We explain how the rewards of social media sites motivate user habit formation, how social media design provides cues that automatically activate habits and nudge continued use, and how strong habits hinder quitting social media. Demonstrating that use habits are tied to cues, we report a novel test of a 2008 change in Facebook design, showing that it impeded posting only of frequent, habitual users, suggesting that the change disrupted habit automaticity. Finally, we offer predictions about the future of social media sites, highlighting the features most likely to promote user habits.

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“…Furthermore, it is important to note that the ecological validity of our experiment may have been further limited by the fact that we explicitly instructed participants to continuously choose between the 2-back task and their own smartphone. In real life, the decision to pick up the smartphone is often formed outside of conscious awareness (Bayer & LaRose, 2018). In order to test whether our results reflect this more natural decision-making process, future research should use experience-sampling designs involving log data from the participants' smartphones.…”

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Labor/leisure decisions in their natural context: The case of the smartphone

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In this research, we attempt to understand a common real-life labor/leisure decision, i.e., to perform cognitive work or to interact with one’s smartphone. In an ecologically valid experiment, participants (N = 112) could freely switch back and forth between doing a 2-back task and interacting with their own smartphone. We manipulated the value of the 2-back task (by varying the value of monetary rewards; within-subjects) and of the smartphone (by switching on and off airplane mode; within-subjects) while we recorded incoming notifications, such as text messages. Our study produced three main findings: (1) the current value of the smartphone did not increase our statistical model’s ability to predict switches from labor to leisure when the current task value was also taken into account; (2) however, participants reacted strongly to naturally incoming notifications, which were the strongest predictor of labor-to-leisure switches; (3) there was no evidence that taking into account individual differences (in the value assigned to labor and leisure) improved the model’s ability to predict labor-leisure switches. In sum, using a situated approach to studying labor/leisure decisions, our findings highlight the importance of high task motivation, as well as the temporary distractive potential of smartphone notifications, when people face the challenge of staying focused on their productive tasks.

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Technology Habits: Progress, Problems, and Prospects

Cited by 46 publications

References 83 publications

The Role of Recreational Online Activities in School-Based Screen Time Sedentary Behaviour Interventions for Adolescents: A Systematic and Critical Literature Review

The Role of Recreational Online Activities in School-Based Screen Time Sedentary Behaviour Interventions for Adolescents: A Systematic and Critical Literature Review

Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures

Labor/leisure decisions in their natural context: The case of the smartphone

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