University of Groningen
Multimedia-minded
Wiradhany, Wisnu
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Publication date: 2019
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Wiradhany, W. (2019). Multimedia-minded: media multitasking, cognition, and behavior. University of Groningen.
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Propositions
1. People might become frequent media multitaskers because they are good at it or because they are easily distracted (The introduction of this thesis). 2. People tend to choose certain task combinations (e.g., reading a book while
listening to music) over others (e.g., making a phone call while gaming) in multitasking. The latter might create an additional strain to our cognitive system and thus, be less preferred (Chapter 2 of this thesis).
3. Habitual media multitasking behavior is not associated with increased dis-tractibility as measured by task performance (Chapters 3 and 4 of this the-sis).
4. Habitual media multitasking is associated with more (severe) symptoms of ADHD, high impulsiveness, and a lack of behavioral control as measured in self-reports (Chapter 5 of this thesis).
5. Having your mobile phone in view can be distracting (Chapter 6 of this the-sis).
6. Different individuals might have different thresholds for when they switch from doing one task to another (The general discussion of this thesis). 7. In this increasingly busy world, maybe try to do one thing at a time (my
per-sonal opinion).
8. If you consider all the required steps, a certain “easy” task combination such as talking and walking is actually quite complicated to perform.
9. Perhaps the Hindu God Vishnu (not to be mistaken with the author, Wisnu) has two or more additional arms because He is, like the author, bad at mul-titasking.
