Cell phone addictive for users

Sergio Chaparro's information-technology students had more than just a healthy attachment to their cell phones. When he asked them to shut them off for three days, they panicked.

"They were afraid. They were truly afraid," Chaparro, then an instructor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, recalled of the assignment last year. "They thought it was going to be a painful experience, and they were right."

Only three of about 220 students managed to complete the assignment.

To Chaparro the experiment confirmed what he strongly suspected was a widespread psychological dependence on cell phones.

[via PhysicsOrg]

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