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Checking your mobile phone is contagious!
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Release time：2013-05-13
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If has become the modern equivalent of glancing at your watch - the furtive look at a phone screen to check for new messages or have a quick look at Facebook. Researchers have now found why we often feel such a strong urge to glance at our handset. Using your mobile, they say, is contagious.
A University of Michigan team say people are twice as likely to pull out their phones to check their text messages or email if they’re with someone who has just done the same. It also found that females were more likely to use their mobile than men because it was more `integrated into the daily lives of women`.
Overall, the students used their cellphones in an average of 24 percent, the researchers found. But they were significantly more likely to use their phones (39.5 percent) when their companion had just done so in the previous 10-second interval than without the social cue, the researchers said, adding that this behavior was often repeated.
Cell phones create an alternative outlet for one’s attention and may both promote and interfere with live social interaction,` the researchers wrote.
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