Is it true that today's "information age" with the internet, TV, cell phones, movies, iPhones, etc can decrease your attention span?
- Society's impatience and short attention span is becoming a greater problem and is unleashing a chain reaction of stress.
- What's left may be a shorter attention span and, especially among the generation raised on technology, a decreasing ability to socialize and empathize, Small says.
- "Students have a very short attention span, " she says, "in part because of the media that we as teachers and parents have encouraged them to spend their time with, and in part because we haven't taught them to have longer attention spans."
