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The Cognitive–Affective Costs of High Digital Stimulation: A Conceptual Review of Decision-Making Fatigue and Emotional Concealment Among Gamers and Social Media Users

Author(s) Mr. Vijay N, Ms. Yuvasri S
Country India
Abstract The rapid expansion of digitally stimulating surroundings has reshaped how individualities regulate cognition, feelings, and interpersonal engagement. High- intensity digital surrounds particularly social media platforms and immersive gaming systems continuously expose users to award- driven, High-paced, and largely interactive stimulants that may dodge retired cognitive – affective costs. This abstract review examines two arising psychological issues associated with prolonged digital stimulation ‘decision- making fatigue’ and ‘emotional concealment’. While former literature has explored attention reduction, impulsivity, and Online contribution patterns, limited scholarly attention has been directed toward understanding how these mechanisms meet to impact cognitive prostration and emotional uncertainity across different types of high- engagement digital users. This paper synthesizes theoretical models from cognitive cargo proposition, price perceptivity fabrics, and affect regulation exploration to propose an intertwined understanding of how sustained digital absorption may stretch superintendent functioning, distort cost – benefit logic, and shape emotion-operation strategies.
The review examines how gamers, frequently immersed in goal- directed, high- thrill, rapid-fire feedback cycles, may witness decision strain due to repetitious strategic choices, nonstop performance evaluation, and elevated price expectation. In discrepancy, high social media users, who operate in socially evaluative and Data-driven environment, may witness a distinct form of cognitive fatigue embedded in constant micro-decisions related to print operation, content evaluation, and social comparison. Also, the review highlights emotional concealment as a participated but contextually discerned construct gamers may suppress emotional expression to maintain performance approval or social identity within gaming communities, whereas social media users may conceal authentic affect to align with idealized or socially desirable online personas. By bridging these disciplines, the review identifies critical theoretical gaps, including the lack of relative fabrics that explain digital-specific fatigue pathways, the underrepresentation of emotional concealment in cognitive models of digital engagement, and the absence of integrated clinical perspectives on digital overstimulation. This abstract conflation underscores the need for methodical empirical examinations that examine cross-platform differences, explore neuro cognitive labels of digital fatigue, and estimate the long- term cognitive defensiveness of emotionally subdued digital lifestyle.
The review eventually positions decision- making fatigue and emotional concealment as vital constructs for understanding the deeper internal health consequences of contemporary digital cultures.
Keywords Digital stimulation, cognitive load, decision-making fatigue, emotional concealment, gamers, social media users, reward sensitivity, affect regulation, conceptual review.
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-12-08
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2431
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbdwft
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