{"id":29039,"date":"2016-08-17T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/adults-acting-like-toddlers-because-of-technology-obsession-warns-neuroscientist"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:56:20","slug":"adults-acting-like-toddlers-because-of-technology-obsession-warns-neuroscientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/adults-acting-like-toddlers-because-of-technology-obsession-warns-neuroscientist","title":{"rendered":"Adults acting like toddlers because of technology obsession, warns neuroscientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adults-acting-like-toddlers-because-of-technology-obsession-warns-neuroscientist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adults are starting to behave like toddlers as social media and video games lead to a craving for instant gratification, a leading neuroscientist fears.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Susan Greenfield, who is a senior research fellow at Oxford University, said the obsession with games like Pok\u00e9mon Go is causing the \u201cinfantilisation\u201d of adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>The trend of shunning the outdoors and live social contact in favour of social media is also contributing to grown-ups exhibiting traits associated with toddlers, including neediness and a short attention span, she added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/politics\/scottish-politics\/270751\/adults-behaving-like-toddlers-because-of-technology-obsession-warns-neuroscientist\/\">https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/politics\/scottish-polit...scientist\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adults are starting to behave like toddlers as social media and video games lead to a craving for instant gratification, a leading neuroscientist fears. Baroness Susan Greenfield, who is a senior research fellow at Oxford University, said the obsession with games like Pok\u00e9mon Go is causing the \u201cinfantilisation\u201d of adulthood. The trend of shunning the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60752,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29039\/revisions\/60752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}