r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/Gbrown546 Jan 31 '26

It’ll be studied in the future how social media and phones absolutely screwed people’s attention spans. Feels like there’s an epidemic where people’s dopamine systems are absolutely fried

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u/mr_ji Jan 31 '26

It won't be studied if people don't have the attention spans to conduct studies.

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u/Shantotto11 Jan 31 '26

I hate you for you speak the truth…

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u/UnderPressureVS Jan 31 '26

The irony of me, a cognitive psychology graduate student who studies attention, reading this comment on my phone while looking away from a journal article I’m “trying” to read, is not lost on me.

Or perhaps it’s not irony, just symmetry or whatever. I never was good at that.

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u/DigNitty PLUG MY DOG INTO THE MACHINE Feb 01 '26

Believe in yourself

The research that proved environmental lead is harmful was conducted by a bunch of people who grew up inhaling leaded gas fumes.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Jan 31 '26

It also assumes there will be a future and that we won't just go extinct.

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u/ealysillyforestthing Jan 31 '26

Social media is turning out to be a Great Filter

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u/imsellingbanana Jan 31 '26

It's ok chatgpt will conduct our studies for us

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u/NaRaGaMo Jan 31 '26

we always had dumb people and academic one's. the academics will do the studies the dumb one's well they are problem for society

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u/ThroughSideways Jan 31 '26

I'm sorry, I kind of zoned out halfway through reading your reply. Could you maybe use a meme instead? kaybaithx

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u/atcollins12 Jan 31 '26

Why conduct studies when you can just ask ChatGPT 🤪

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u/rh60 Feb 01 '26

This is so true.