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The irresistible mobile phone call: every day it distracts us 150 times

2020-08-30T23:19:20.779Z


The mere fact of having a 'smartphone' within easy reach is capable of interrupting us enough to alter our intellectual performance, even when the device is inactive


Teenagers with their smartphones in London.Jeff Greenberg / GETTY IMAGES / Education Images / Universal Image

Every day, the owners of a smartphone , whether they are adults or adolescents, suffer on average between fifty and one hundred fifty interruptions, that is, one every ten to thirty minutes, or, if we cut off the sleep time (say seven hours a day), one every seven to twenty minutes. In half of the cases, these interruptions correspond to intrusive external elements (messages, SMS, calls, etc.). The other half are due to a compulsive endogenous movement. This movement is innate: it is the consequence of a progressive selection that, throughout the biological process of our ...

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