Ten years ago, a shocking headline captured the world’s attention: “Human beings now have an attention span shorter than that ...

And the average length of a shot in a movie is now under five seconds. These days, multi-tasking while you're tasking is the norm among young people. Just ask counselor Lauren Barnett and her ...

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds ...

In my previous article, "Forget Time Management—Manage Your Attention," I outlined why attention management is a powerful mechanism for effectiveness. The goal is to allocate our attention to fewer ...

In the early 2000s, Gloria Mark noticed she was having trouble paying attention to any single screen. Anecdotally, she knew others were feeling the same way. As a psychologist and scientist, she ...

Discussions on whether the digitization of literature deprives people of the physical experience of reading have taken the literary community by storm. Thousands are left wondering if the introduction ...

The idea that attention spans can "break" has been spreading like wildfire across TikTok, podcasts and think pieces—framing focus as something fragile, like glass. But experts say the reality is more ...

The average adult’s attention span is shorter than a goldfish’s — just eight seconds — and it’s only getting shorter. That’s what everyone seems to say, anyways. But in today’s stimulus-rich ...

MANY of us have some sense of what an “attention span” is. We may even be quietly convinced that ours is shorter than it used to be. The idea that it is harder to concentrate today than it was in the ...

Attention spans are widely misapplied, misused, and misunderstood. The classic attention span research established that college students could pay attention for about 21-22 minutes. At minute 22, ...