What Sahar Yousef has said about Smartphone addiction

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026

Sahar Yousef, Cognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity, has been quoted on Smartphone addiction once in 1 episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Yousef advocates making scientific attention and digital-dependence assessments freely available to the public.
“I'm extremely passionate about making scientific assessments available to the general public. I think science should be for people, not profits”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:11:35

Episodes

Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.

Others on Smartphone addiction

Steven Bartlett · 1 quote

Sahar Yousef on other topics

Persuasive technology and engagement design · 3 quotes
Artificial intelligence · 2 quotes
Focus sprint · 2 quotes
Human multitasking · 1 quote
Chronotype · 1 quote
Rumination · 1 quote
Brain breaks and boredom · 1 quote
Task prioritization (MITs and LITs) · 1 quote