Results and findings of this paper:
The results showed that watching TikTok videos significantly degraded users' performance in the prospective memory task, with accuracy dropping to nearly random guessing levels.
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In contrast, none of the other conditions like Rest, Twitter, or YouTube, had a significant negative effect on prospective memory performance.
Furthermore, none of the conditions affected the ongoing lexical decision task. The cognitive modeling revealed that after a TikTok interruption, participants suffered from reduced decision efficiency, higher uncertainty, and a shift toward making less-informed, hasty choices when trying to recall their intended actions.