Most of us find multitasking appealing. And media multitasking—reading a book while watching TV—is irresistible, even when the results are less than optimal. Most people aren’t good multitaskers. (See ...

Multitasking is a good thing, right? After all, the very term suggests accomplishing at least two tasks at the same time, which must be a boon to productivity. Not so, according to the New York Times ...

Everybody multitasks. We have conversations while driving. We answer email while browsing the Web. It's hard to imagine living any other way. What would be the alternative, removing the seats from ...

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 ...

So why do so many of us still try to multitask? We’re too busy with too much to do and too little time to do it in. The temptation to accomplish multiple things at the same time is practically ...

Everybody complains that people shouldn't talk on cellphones while driving. And yet it seems pretty much everybody does it. That may be because so many of us think we're multitasking ninjas, while the ...

Think you can do it all . . . all at once? Contributor Faith Salie suggests maybe you CAN'T: There's been a lot of negative talk about multitasking lately. Excuse me, I'm talking to you . . . yes, you ...

The more time teens spend multitasking with various tech devices, the worse they tend to perform on academic tests, a small new study suggests. In the study, the researchers analyzed information from ...