Oh thanks Sam!

Looks super fun. Thanks!

Fun - thank you!

Great book - I've read it, but loved it!

11/ Enjoy having a little slice of your mind back!

10/ I've done this for almost 10 years now (w/ a gap in the middle when Apple made it hard to delete Safari & things fell apart, & some random transgressions). My top app this week was... my clock (for timing recipes). After that, Signal, podcasts, Google maps for driving. Like normal things.

9/ There is no perfect guide to how to remove apps from your phone w/ configurator, but there's one that's pretty solid here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7W1...

8/ I do not recommend banning apps from your phone. In certain rare situations - e.g., while traveling - you just need a web browser to do something, and it SUCKS to not be able to download one. But I DO 100% recommend deleting Safari from your iPhone. You will not miss it.

7/ However, because of capitalism & the need of businesses to control their employees every action, Apple created Apple Configurator. This OSx app can be downloaded to your desktop computer & will allow you to delete ANY app, & also to ban any app from download including Safari & the App store.

6/ This will not solve your problem b/c many phones (iPhone) now make it impossible to delete your browser, & claim that your phone will not function w/o it. That is a complete lie. iPhone allowed us to delete Safari for years (until about 2 years ago) and now you can "hide" it, but not delete it.

5/ Long story short: games, social media, streaming services. Maybe reading kindle is keeping you on your screen more than you like. Dunno. But get rid of anything that you cannot (or wouldn't rather) do on another screen.

4/ The first step is to delete any app you use that you do not critically need & that is obviously drawing you to your phone for no good reason. You can navigate to screen time to see which apps you use most, but chances are you already know.

3/ You can dumb your iPhone while retaining critical features in two steps. The first is simple. The second is NOT simple but also SUPER worth it if you want a fancy iPhone w/ camera, maps, banking, music, etc. that isn't addictive.

2/ The main problem of tech addiction are apps that use a random reinforcement schedule: social media, games, etc. but also the web browser (the portal to everything else). A common solution is the dumbphone but this is impractical & unnecessary.

Authors include lead Haleh Yazdi, @mcxfrank.bsky.social @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, Mahesh Srinivasan, Erica Yoon, Miguel Mejia, & Rose Schneider.

We believe that both steps of this research are valuable, & maybe not interpretable in isolation. There is value in showing cross-cultural variability as a 1st step in a research program. But once we show variability, following up to understand what explains these differences is crucial.

A crucial factor is that items developed for Western groups include conventions which, when violated in Iran, also infringe upon religious or legal norms, unlike in, e.g., Canada or the US. These generate much more severe judgments than items that avoid these norms & are simple cultural conventions.

No: In a second experiment, we show that Iranian children, who don't show an effect using items developed for Western groups, DO show a robust moral conventional distinction when tested w/ culturally tailored items.