Dont Know What Youve Got Till Its Gone

At the end of the study, we also measured perceived levels of enjoyment and ability to concentrate during the experiment.

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Indeed, the resistors and the controls found it difficult to sit alone with their thoughts for the six minutes. The resistors, however, reported less concentration difficulty than the controls, and over time, their skin conductance levels were lower than the controls. It seems that just the presence of the phone can focus the mind and relax the body at least over a short time. The results are described in a working paper.

Is this a sign that our students have become addicted to their phones? Instead, as colleagues at the University of Virginia and Harvard University have shown , people hate sitting alone with nothing to do because our brains seek external stimulation. As any meditation coach or yoga instructor knows, it takes serious effort and discipline to focus the mind without outside stimulation.

Why might this be? While the phone is a single piece of physical technology, people use media for almost everything, from social connection to staying informed, from professional activities to entertainment, from sports to shopping. By not letting people use their phone, we can see what the phone offers. We believe that the power of the phone—to connect us to each other—is its most important, and under-appreciated, value.

To support this point, we conducted another study , this time at a hospital, where we let some people use their phone in a situation when they usually cannot: Patients with their phone were allowed to either play Angry Birds or communicate with someone by exchanging text messages during the operation.

The patients who could not use their phone were six times more likely to require powerful opioids to get through the procedure than those who could communicate by text message with another person. Patients using the phone to communicate needed fewer opioids than patients playing Angry Birds.

See a Problem?

From these studies, we argue that understanding the effects of taking away our smartphones can reveal what the connected state of mind means for us individually and for society. When people cannot use technology to connect with one another, to stay informed, and to entertain themselves, they may lose out on important psychological benefits. Psychology has provided decades of evidence that social connection is incredibly important for well-being, and that a desire for information and entertainment are core human needs. There is also plenty of evidence that we have social brains that have evolved and become highly tuned to seeking out social information.

This is precisely what using the phone, with its access to vast amounts of social media, can provide. We should not throw out decades of research from psychology and communication just because technology is involved, especially when these literatures suggest that the phone can facilitate important social and psychological needs. This is not to say that there is no value in disconnecting. There clearly is—turning phones off during social gatherings, paying attention to the people we are with, and having time alone and unplugged to recharge are all important.

But to assume that our constant state of connection with the phone constitutes an addiction is to miss the point. With this approach, we see one important warning sign of the connected state: Companies that provide media content for the phone are using psychology and strategic communication research to get us to spend as much time on them as possible. These techniques, when used to manipulate us rather than support us, need to be fought against through regulation and education.

She was fun, sassy and a little flawed, which made her real. I also enjoyed the portrayal of the magazine world through Nina's eyes, and think Gemma, with her own experiences, did this reall I first began this book in , but for whatever reason it just didn't grab me. I also enjoyed the portrayal of the magazine world through Nina's eyes, and think Gemma, with her own experiences, did this really well. I'm not going to bang on about the storyline, I'm sure others have in their reviews, but I enjoyed it enough to keep reading.

I think the book actually improved the more I read, and by the end I was keen to see how it would all play out. Dec 26, Karleen rated it it was ok. This book is fairly terrible as you would imagine however I didn't hate it and managed to finish it so it gets 2 stars from me. I received it as part of an online book exchange pyramid-scheme-like thing. It's your typical trash book holiday read, easy mindless passing the time. Maybe it's just not my genre, but the main character is not very likeable: Wouldn't recommend to friends but I'm also not throwing it straight in the bin.

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Jun 07, Kylie rated it it was ok Shelves: Basically, overall not a bad book. But had way to many common slang terms that aren't actually used in day to day conversation - no real grip on reality there. But really cinched it for me was the reference that pre-term babies would have to be fed through an eye dropper Um sweetheart - perhaps do a little research, premmies are not kittens.

Sep 12, Monique rated it it was ok. This was such a weird book. I thought it had such great potential, but by the end I ended up severely disliking the main character. She was selfish, rude and totally stupid. I get the author wanted to create a 'true friendship will prevail' vibe, but I think she missed the mark. Had potential to be awesome, but just Jul 19, Erin rated it liked it. The single career woman who loves fun who gets loathed by her friends talking about babies.

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It was okay, i found it again pretty immature and i think the main girl just really annoyed me! Oct 18, Bec Johnston rated it did not like it. I wish there was an option for 0 stars.. Dec 29, Katerina Whitefield rated it it was ok. Nina still annoyed me, is it possible to hate the main character?

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