Do Phone Breaks Actually Help You Recharge?
Do phone breaks help you recharge? Research shows a phone break can lift mood, but breaks without your phone more often restore vigour and ease fatigue.
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Studies: Albulescu 2022 N=2335 d=0.36/0.35, Grobelny 2024 N=308, Yildirim 2026, Ward 2017 2 exp, Hartmann 2020, Skowronek 2023, Böttger 2023 22/43, Yang 2024 15min, Jiang 2025, Hancock 2019 63/1094.
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