Kathmandu, July 7 -- When a person's thoughts no longer align with their actions, cognitive dissonance emerges as an inevitable force. It exists in between the contradictions of awareness and action, between emotional exhaustion and compulsive return.

We know endless scrolling can damage our functioning. This behaviour is exhausting, anxiety-inducing and emotionally draining, yet we continue scrolling in search of something. Perhaps clarity, certainty, distraction or relief. We are made to believe that maybe one more scroll would finally feel enough. But it rarely does.

Psychologist Raju Raut, a faculty member at Shankerdev Campus, Central Department of Psychology, expands further on this topic.

How does cognitive dissonance operate in...