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What Ignoring a Notification Actually Costs: Phone Alerts, Focus, and Attention
A notification does not have to make you pick up your phone to affect your attention. In this Mastery Brief, Dr. T-Michael Dougherty looks at research showing that phone notifications alone can disrupt performance on an attention-demanding task—even when the phone is never touched—and why redesigning notification delivery may be more useful than simply trying to ignore every interruption.
The practical question is simple: which things actually deserve the right to interrupt you immediately?
Key takeaway
Ignoring a notification may be a successful act of self-control, but it does not…
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