Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

You are likely reading this story on a screen. I have 47 seconds of your focus before you are likely distracted by something else, according to research on the average attention span. Let’s make the ...

If it feels harder to concentrate than it used to, it's not just you. Scientists say your brain is reacting exactly as it was ...

Teachers can use these six strategies to boost students’ ability to work with sustained focus for increasing amounts of time.

It’s no secret that our attention span is shrinking, as is our ability to ward off distractions. A study by Harvard University psychologists found that people spend nearly 47% of their day thinking ...

James Lang’s book, Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It offers useful context around ideas about distraction and tips on how to understand it, educate around it, and ...

If you’re just a few words into this story, but already feeling the urge to click or swipe or begin some other activity altogether, I won’t take it personally. Attention spans among humans have ...

Opinion: Our era of distractions may be a quiet crisis, writes Armstrong Williams, but for a function democracy, its ...

In a world defined by an epidemic of distraction, the most focused leaders are creating momentum, one deliberate choice at a time, against a rising tide of noise and interruption. Every alert, every ...

Is distraction a curse or a blessing? Not giving full attention to what we should be doing makes us miss deadlines, fail classes, and crash into other drivers. Distraction certainly has a price.

Stacey Hanke is founder of Stacey Hanke Inc. and author of “Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday.” Your listeners are exhausted. They're fighting an uphill battle ...