My brain, trying to write this news:"Did he sext me?" ". And bing, I can't help but take a 6th look at my iPhone 3 (or vice versa), before being disappointed with the answer:NO (otherwise it would have vibrated). Without transition, the mere presence of our phone is enough to divert our attention from both easy and complex tasks, even when we are not using it! In any case, this is what a new study published in the American journal Social Psychology suggests. and conducted by psychologist Bill Thornton.
The participants ? Students from two different classes – probably sextokers too – from the University of Southern Maines (Portland, USA). They volunteered to carry out two types of work requiring, for one, light attention, the other, more sustained attention. Unsurprisingly, students who had their phones on their desks while they worked – they were told they would need them to perform an operation – did less well than those who hid it.
Another research goes further, and shows that the mere presence of a phone, again, even when we are not using it, weakens our ability to connect with those around us, especially when… we try to chat something deep! It's charming, poke people whose such is grafted to their hand, poke me. So it's pushing an open door to say it, but:when you want to focus on the person in front of you, or just work better, you HIDE your phone. It's "scientific", and it may soon become the height of chic:"digital detox" is on the rise.
"Detoxifying" this way doesn't make you lose weight, it just saves us from turning into clumsy, phubbing professionals - a contraction of "phone" and "snubbing". "STOP PHUBBING ME", the hype phrase to throw at your interlocutor in 2015 (validated by Baroness de Rothschild).
