These UC Berkeley Students Are Leading the Fight Against Phones ^75.6%

KQED - By Eliza Peppel - 4/25/2026, 3:00 PM

Negativity Bias 24.6% - Anecdotal 16% - Framing Effect 15.8%

On a sunny Friday afternoon at Memorial Glade, the center of UC Berkeley’s campus, students set up volleyball nets, cornhole, picnic blankets and a makeshift plywood stage for live music. Their goal? To throw a phone-free party. Music blasted from a speaker near a snack table. Colorful, handwritten signs read messages like “Favorite app?... more