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No, you are not addicted to your digital device, but you may have a habit you want to break

  • Written by Ian A. Anderson, Ph.D. Student, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageFrequent social media use does not necessarily equate to addiction.Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Imagine that you’re a typical middle school student having dinner with your family. Your mother takes your smartphone away and puts it in a lock-box that won’t open for an hour.

Would you: (a) go ahead and eat dinner with your...

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