I receive a never-ending stream of investment research and news emails in my inbox. Most of them are unsolicited, and I usually ignore them. But a recent email from a respected research firm piqued my ...

According to the latest Nielsen Total Audience Report, US adults spend almost 11 hours a day consuming media. That translates to 70 percent of waking time. Which means you spend 70 percent of your day ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In today’s increasingly digital world, endless amounts of information are readily available at our fingertips. But instead of being ...

Email has a bad reputation for being the main cause of information overload; just look at the massive amounts of articles and studies devoted to the topic: According to a 2012 report from consulting ...

Ralph Hertwig receives funding from the Volkswagen Foundation and the European Commission (HORIZON 2022 grant GA 101094752). He has collaborated with researchers in the Joint Research Centre of the ...

“My son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh” — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Information overload is nothing new. It has been around for millennia.

A new study published in August 2023 looked at “information overload” in parents (translation: when a parent feels overwhelmed and stressed by the amount of information available, resulting in feeling ...

Since the 1970s, the term “information overload” has captured society’s anxiety about the growth in the production of information having potentially bad consequences for people as they struggle to ...

This is a guest post from WNYC's Note to Self podcast, which explores effects of technology on our lives. Its "Infomagical" challenge will launch on Feb. 1, and you can sign up on the WNYC website.