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Why do we like looking at our screens so much? It may seem intuitively obvious why video gaming is addictive. After all, it is stimulating, endlessly variable, rewarding (the fancy medical term is dopaminergic), easily accessible — and fun. But in both my research and clinical practice, I find many areas of Internet screen use to be addictive as well. These include video platforms like YouTube, social media, video gaming, Reddit, online shopping, online gambling, information scrolling and surfing (kind of equivalent to TV channel surfing from the old days), and, of course, pornography. This section looks at the main reasons why people can’t help focusing on their screens.