It’s Not All in Your Head–You Do Focus Differently on Zoom
If you’ve ever felt that a Zoom meeting or video call wasn’t scratching your itch for an in-person chat, science is on your side. Staring at another person’s face via a live computer screen prompts lower levels of certain brain activities and social arousal, compared with seeing them in reality, according to a study published last month in the journal Imaging Neuroscience.
In a world where screens now frequently supplant real-life sit-downs, the study hints that there could be social consequences to leaning heavily on…