Using a mobile phone is contagious as yawning Bashny.Net

You may have noticed time and again: is one person in the company to pull out your mobile and start there, "poking" - write messages, view e-mail, take pictures or use some applications, like the hands of surrounding themselves drawn into the pockets of the phone. It does not take five minutes, the entire company is sitting, staring at the screens. Phones contagious as a yawn, says a new study.

Researchers from the University of Michigan observed the students in the cafeterias and cafés of the campus from January to April of last year. It was noted that the chance to get into the cell for 10 seconds after your friend is made at 39, 5%. "Contagious Mobile - nothing else, as a result of a sense of social alienation that occurs at the time when the source is diverted from communicating with you. You have no choice, how to do the same thing, on a subconscious level, demonstrating that you are not alone, "- explained the authors of the experiment. At the same time, they stressed that this behavior is peculiar to a greater extent for young people than for people of middle age and older.

via factroom.ru