The iPhone Effect: The Quality of In-Person Social Interactions in the Presence of Mobile Devices
Misra, Cheng, Genevie & Yuan (2014) · Environment and Behavior, 48(2) — online 2014, in print 2016
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What it found
Our reading. The nearest study: in 100 pairs holding ten-minute conversations, those with a phone on the table or in hand rated the conversation lower and reported less empathic concern than pairs with no phone in sight.
What it does not show
A field study of 100 pairs in ten-minute conversations. Topic was assigned; whether a phone was out was observed, not assigned, so on that point it is correlational. It measures conversation quality and self-reported empathic concern during talk. It says nothing about waiting for a reply, or about where a phone should go.
And where we carry it further
That study is about a phone present during a conversation, and phone presence was observed, not assigned. It does not test the wait after a text, or ninety minutes, or another room. Those are ours.
Where we rely on it
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Rachman, Grüter-Andrew & Shafran (2000)Our reading
Our own opinion. We think it works. We can't prove it, so we say so instead of pretending.
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