Meryl Horn

At least a lot of the time, like they said they felt more frustrated and coerced compared to the control condition where they were just getting a little warning, but they didn't actually get locked out of their phone anymore.

And then they got really stressed out when they saw that the time was getting close to when they would have to get cut off.

Yes, that's the point.

Yeah, but I think the thing that was frustrating was that we use our phones for a lot of different things, right?

So when we get locked out of everything altogether, it can be really annoying.

Yes, it's a big stick.

Like, I do all the sorts of things with my phone.

I don't want to be locked out altogether.

Yeah.

And then there's one other super kind of hardcore study I wanted to tell you about since you were interested in, you know, signing up for a study yourself where you just have to, like...

get rid of your phone so i talked to this researcher who set up the study where they wanted to cut the internet off people's phones for two weeks but then when it was actually time to to start the experiments um and download this app that cut off the internet

a ton of people didn't actually go through with it.

So more than 40% of them just didn't even get the app, even though they signed up for the study.

And then even a bunch of people who got the app kept cheating.

They'd like re-enable the internet again and again and again during the study.

So even though you think you might want something super extreme, it seems like for a lot of people, they don't actually want to do this.

Petard?

Petard?

Petard?

I guess that's a loaf of bread.