# A Study on excessive social media use

**URL:** https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-study-on-excessive-social-media-use/35330
**Category:** Neuroscience, Psychology, and Health
**Tags:** digital-minimalism
**Created:** [January 12, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-study-on-excessive-social-media-use/35330 "2019-01-12T16:32:35Z")
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### Author: ![bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/bjoern.gumboldt/32/16747_2.png) [@bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/bjoern.gumboldt)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/a-study-on-excessive-social-media-use/35330/3 "2019-01-12T19:54:40Z")

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Just some background on the IGT, so that it’s clear what their conclusion is based on:

[![](https://forum.artofmemory.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/a/ca8212f54fe920a1feeaefc2a048d3ff0a74233e.jpeg "13E Iowa Gambling Task") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6SsQIyJMhs)

…your “value-based decision making” is evaluated based upon your choosing of random cards. Here another interesting study:

> The observations of this study indicate that EV is not predictive for choice behaviors as suggested by IGT. It seems that immediate gain eventually resulted in a long-term loss. The basic assumption of IGT is thus no longer plausible to assure the foresighted decision makers in the Iowa Gambling Task.

> **[Immediate gain is long-term loss: Are there foresighted decision makers in...](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1744-9081-4-13)**
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> Background The Somatic Marker Hypothesis suggests that normal subjects are "foreseeable" and ventromedial prefrontal patients are "myopic" in making decisions, as the behavior shown in the Iowa Gambling Task. The present study questions previous...

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