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How to cope with news overload, with Markus Brauer, PhD, and Don Grant, PhD

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Is This a Form of Addiction?

There's no formal diagnosis of news overload, but given that people do behave in ways similar to being addicted, should we be looking at this as a form of addiction and maybe exploring the idea of a syndrome, if not a diagnosis? I predict it's going to be called something like gaming disorder. If you are posting anything on social media and I don't care. What is your real motivation? Because my close friends and my closest orbit. No, what's going on? They knew I was at that wedding. But if you're posting or you're trying to be a voyeur or whatever your behavior is on social media. So that's also why I have a question like why are

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