Cell phone behavior can spread like flu

Your desire to call or check your messages will double if your companion uses a mobile phone.

Researchers from the University of Michigan (USA) tracked on dozens of students to find out the phenomenon of transmission in mobile phone use, Telegraph reported.

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Clones tend to not feel lost. (Photo: earthtimes.org)

The team tracks students using cell phones in the cafeteria and cafeteria around a university campus between January and April this year. The students did not know the research team observed them. They sat with friends for about 20 minutes and they used the phone once every 10 seconds.

The results of the study, published in the journal Human Ethology Bulletin, show that mobile phone use involves ' social isolation . ' When people around us pull out their phones, we often feel lost so we pull out our phones to stop that feeling.

'When a person in the group uses a mobile phone then the likelihood of others doing the same action will double. Therefore, we see a kind of mimicry in phone use. This situation is repeated many times , 'said Dr. Daniel Kruger, an expert of the Public Health School at the Center for Population Research. number and Institute of Social Health Research.

The finding also indicates that women can use more mobile than men because it 'is more associated with their daily lives'.