Does TikTok Make You Lose Track of Time?
Does TikTok make you lose track of time? Short videos can distort time perception, but TikTok, Reels and Shorts look more similar than different.
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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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