Confident you can multitask? Research shows the most certain people are usually worst at it. Here’s what brain science ...

Only 2.5% of people can genuinely multitask. Here’s what the science says about switch costs and how to get your focus back.

We live in an era when endless switching from one type of activity to another has become a necessity of life. Throughout the day, our focus on specific tasks gets disrupted by various emails, texts, ...

We pride ourselves on doing more in less time, juggling emails, decisions, and deadlines as if productivity were a competitive sport. But what feels like efficiency is often just rapid task-switching, ...

Our increasingly busy lives are often sustained, at least in theory, by multitasking—rapidly switching attention between tasks rather than doing them truly in parallel or completing them one at a time ...