Flipping through emails and social media while half tuning into a Zoom lecture? Researchers in a new study found heavier media multitasking correlated to poor memory. “As we navigate our lives, we ...

(CBS) Do moms have it harder than dads? Working moms spend more time multitasking than working dads - and the experience of keeping multiple balls in the air at once is more stressful for the moms ...

Burnout is top of mind for teams that have continued their work through the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as more work is done from home. An April study from software company Clockwise found the ...

Being too digitally social can hurt the development of tweenage girls, according to a new Stanford University study. The study by education professor Roy Pea and communications professor Clifford Nass ...

The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That is the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less ...

The sight of teenagers texting with one hand and jiggling a video game controller with the other—all while watching a video on their tablet—may look like an extreme sugar rush, but a new study ...

If you’ve ever fallen back on that old stereotype that women are somehow better at multitasking than men, a study released Wednesday may make you change your tune. The study was conducted by two ...

WASHINGTON – People who balance all their “irons in the fire” can put an average person to shame. But new research suggests that not only is multitasking bad, people can’t actually do it. Multiple ...

Men and women are equally bad at multitasking, according to the authors of a study that debunks the widely held view women are better at juggling jobs. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, ...

People who believe they are good at multitasking are actually terrible at it, according to a new study from the University of Utah. “What is alarming is that people who talk on cells phones while ...

A study in the American Sociological Review shows that working moms are more stressed out by multitasking than working dads. It's a significant finding because women report they do a lot more ...

Scientists have pinpointed a reason older adults have a harder time multitasking than younger adults: they have more difficulty switching between tasks at the level of brain networks. Scientists at ...