Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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Is your phone your comfort blanket?

Constantly checking your phone during conversations with a partner—a behavior known as phubbing—may be less about bad manners and more about deeper psychological needs. New research led by the University of Southampton, the Vinzenz Pallotti University and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has examin...

Is your phone your comfort blanket?
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Constantly checking your phone during conversations with a partner—a behavior known as phubbing—may be less about bad manners and more about deeper psychological needs. New research led by the University of Southampton, the Vinzenz Pallotti University and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany has examined why our phones come between us, even when we don't mean them to.

Originally published at Phys.org

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