These findings highlight the potential for heavy media multitaskers to be at risk for problematic behaviors associated with delay discounting – behaviors such as substance abuse, overeating, problematic gambling, and poor financial management.
These findings highlight the potential for HMMs to be at risk for problematic behaviors associated with immediate gains and longer-term negative consequences – behaviors such as substance abuse, overeating, problematic gambling, and impulsive spending – and further investigation of this association may suggest ways to remediate undesirable media multitasking behaviors.
In a study to be published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia subjected 173 college students to tests measuring risk for problematic Internet and gambling behaviors.
College is a time of increased risk for problematic alcohol use and depressed mood.
The view that infants and toddlers manifesting high levels of negative emotion are at special risk of problematic development when they experience poor-quality rearing is widespread.
Studies with no prospect of direct benefit and more than minimal risk are problematic when the patient is incompetent to provide meaningful consent.
However, it is unclear whether frequent marijuana users conform to a "reinforcer pathology" addiction model wherein marijuana demand and DD jointly increase risk for problematic marijuana use and cannabis dependence (CD).
Some believe that it is plausible that, through adequate information, we could largely correct mistaken beliefs about the link between genetic and personal identity, and thus reduce the risk of problematic expectations toward the clone (Harris, 1997, 2004; Tooley 1998, 84 5; Brock, 1998, Pence, 1998).
And we often compensate for risk in problematic ways, especially in the workplace.
Take Fox News, which last week ran a segment slyly asking the question, "Are female breadwinners a problem?" At a time when women are the primary breadwinners in 40percentt of U.S. households -- including plenty of households that fall below the poverty line -- one wonders what Fox would have those women do so as not to risk being problematic.
