In the first formal study of "phone snubbing" – you know, the way people answer texts or glance at their phones when they're supposed to be interacting with you – a group of Baylor University researchers concluded that this very new phenomenon is damaging our relationships. Eight kinds of "phubbing" were described by the study participants, like "my partner keeps their cellphone in their hand when he or she is with me" and "when my partner's cellphone beeps, they pull it out even if we are in the middle of a conversation." More than a fifth of the participants said that "phubbing" causes relationship conflict and decreased satisfaction. Could this be happening in your own relationship?
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click here | | | | | | "Phubbing": The New Way to Kill a Relationship | In the first formal study of “phone snubbing” – you know, the way people answer texts or glance at their phones when they’re supposed to be interacting with you – a group of Baylor University researchers concluded that this very new phenomenon is damaging our relationships. Eight kinds of “phubbing” were described by the study participants, like “my partner keeps their cellphone in their hand when he or she is with me” and “when my partner’s cellphone beeps, they pull it out even if we are in the middle of a conversation.” More than a fifth of the participants said that “phubbing” causes relationship conflict and decreased satisfaction. Could this be happening in your own relationship? |  | Nicholas English
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