In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media - but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned?

A combination of war alerts, breaking news updates, and algorithmic feeds are trapping users in a threat-monitoring loop.

The dominant narrative frames doomscrolling as a dopamine addiction or a willpower failure. Behavioral science suggests something more honest: your brain is seeking low-stakes unpredictability because ...

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that multiple studies have associated doomscrolling – compulsively consuming bad news and depressing ...