Gloria Mark

Author; Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine

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Data scientist and psychologist Gloria Mark shares the latest research on our diminishing attention spans and explains why our increasingly distracted lives can impact our health and…

Addicted to distraction: How our world is robbing our ability to pay attention

Data scientist and psychologist Gloria Mark shares the latest research on our diminishing attention spans and explains why our increasingly distracted lives can impact our health and…

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