A novel knee distraction technique is drawing interest for severe osteoarthritis, with studies showing lasting symptom relief ...

Your phone is constantly buzzing, your computer screen keeps showing new email notifications and that coworker stopped by yet again to ask for a project update. Distractions live everywhere. If you’re ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David DiSalvo writes about science, tech and culture. In 2011, 1.3 million auto accidents in the U.S. involved cell phones – about ...

A new study challenges the idea that distraction is necessarily a problem for learning. Researchers found that if attention was as divided during recall of a motor task as it was during learning the ...

The current study compared the effectiveness of distraction, an antecedent-focused strategy that involves diverting an individual’s attention away from affective terms, and expressive suppression, a ...