Shutterstock November 9, 2022 ‘Phubbing’: snubbing your loved ones for your phone can do more damage than you realise Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Charles Sturt University Phubbing or ‘phone snubbing’ is when prioritise your phone over the people in your company – and it sucks. Here’s how to stop it.
Humans evolved to communicate through eye contact. JGI/Jamie Grill via Getty Images April 15, 2020 Screens are keeping us connected now – but they’re still disruptive to in-person communication Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Hunter College Research shows smartphone use disrupts an essential facet of human connection – eye contact.
Some social situations are more conducive to phubbing than others. Shutterstock November 1, 2018 Phubbing (phone snubbing) happens more in the bedroom than when socialising with friends Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Charles Sturt University Looking at your phone while in the presence of others – called phubbing – has become commonplace. But who gets phubbed most? How frequently? And in what situations?