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Understanding the  🐇  hole

Understanding the  🐇 hole

Based on a series of studies with a total of 6,445 U.S.-based students and working adults it was identified three factors that influence whether people choose to continue viewing photos and videos rather than switch to another activity:

  • the amount of media the person has already viewed
  • the similarity of the media they’ve viewed
  •  the manner in which they viewed the media

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Watching several videos consecutively

One group of participants complete two work tasks and then watch two similar videos, while the other group completed the same four tasks, but alternated between them (i.e., work, video, work, video).

Despite having done exactly the same activities, the order made a big difference: T...

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Have already viewed several videos

Have already viewed several videos

In the first part of the research, participants view either five different music videos or just one music video, and then we asked them if they’d rather watch another video or complete a work-related task.

In theory, one might expect that people would get tired of watching music videos afte...

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Impact of framing the videos people watched as similar to one another

Impact of framing the videos people watched as similar to one another

Participants were shown the same two videos, but for half of the participants, we explicitly labelled the videos with the same category label (“educational videos”), while for the other half of the participants, we didn’t include a category label. We found that simply framing the videos as more s...

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The problem

The problem

We all want to use our time efficiently and productively, especially while at work. And yet, studies have shown that 77% of employees use social media while on the clock, many of them for up to several hours a day.

Take a few minutes to watch the videos and then the next th...

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How to combat the pull of rabbit hole

How to combat the pull of rabbit hole

  • Make an effort to just watch one video; if you really want to watch multiple in a row, choose videos that seem unrelated; or find ways to intentionally interrupt your viewing experience.
  • You can use a social media timer that prompts you to take a break after a certain amount of time,...

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The results of a series of studies exploring what makes people more or less likely to get sucked into endlessly watching videos or looking at posts.

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