Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. In 2011, 1.3 million auto accidents in the U.S. involved cell phones – about ...

I don't need to convince you that distraction is a problem in today's workplace. Stats like this, however, are woefully incomplete. There's no way we're accomplishing 3.1 hours worth of actual goals ...

Depression is one of the most serious mental health conditions that can be managed through productive distraction, and this ...

Opinion: Our era of distractions may be a quiet crisis, writes Armstrong Williams, but for a function democracy, its ...

You're in the kitchen, baking a cake, and the recipe calls for two cups of sugar. By the time you choose between the brown ...

A client once described to me what happened after they had lived through a traumatic assault. For a long time, life stayed busy enough that they rarely had to think about it. Work, obligations, and ...

A constant complaint in our unpredictable world is that we live in an age of distraction. I am quick to label students who stare at their phones in my class distracted; politicians dismiss ...

Distraction is a double-edge sword. Our mind's propensity to wander is great when we need a diversion: It keeps us occupied and sane during meetings and helps us cope with trauma while we mentally ...