Before the pandemic grounded most of us, if you’d ever ridden the subway or a bus, flew on a commercial flight or, heck, been anywhere in public with lots of other people, chances are you’d have seen a familiar thing: all heads around you bowed, eyes locked intently on a cell-phone screen. If people had near constant phone fixation in the prepandemic times, it might be safe to call it a flat-out phone addiction in the age of rolling lockdowns and perpetual social distancing; one survey found that average U.S. adult smartphone time surpassed three hours a day for the first time ever in 2020. A lot of this screen time is likely mindless scrolling from one post to another—in one way, it’s a distraction from thinking about the strife in one’s own life and in the world. As writer Karen K. Ho tells our technology editor Sophie Bushwick in this issue’s cover story, this so-called doomscrolling robs “future-you of the energy you need to really focus on important things and also to take better care of yourself” (see “停止Doomscrolling新闻和社交媒体“)。

滚动进一步进入这个问题,高级编辑Gary Stix与Vanderbilt University的心理学史蒂文D. Hollon教授有一个迷人的对话,关于治疗治疗抑郁症(见)进化可以解释为什么心理治疗可能适用于抑郁症“)。和记者Christiane Gelitz探讨了你是否可以阅读某人的脸上的辩论(见“人类是糟糕的谎言探测器“)。完成此吸收收集后,我建议避开屏幕并获得一些新的春天空气。