Something interesting from the seatpocket! I traveled a lot this summer, much of the freneticity resulting from my pursuit of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) certification. The irony of spending an uncomfortable amount of time in airports to acquire the skills to lead others to a less stressed life accosted me without mercy every time a flight was delayed and my specious calm drowned in a flood of cortisols. Fortunately I have the dark sense of humor needed to appreciate such situations.
The clever info-byte I found under the by-line of this post's title comes from Hemisphere magazine; I can't recall which airline that is. The first sentence of the piece says it all:
" . . . you and your smartphone are in a pretty ugly codependent relationship." The article then recounts the key points from a study in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication which demonstrated mild to severe separation anxiety - the feelings that set two-year-olds whining when parents leave them with a babysitter - when adults are separated from their smartphones for even short lengths of time. "During this round [of the experiment] heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety all rose and word-search ability plummeted."
I'm sympathetic. I feel the same way on those rare occasions when I carry my smart phone and the damned unexpectedly launches into some warbling electronic rant.
Clayton, R., Leshner, G., and Almond, A. (2015). The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 20(2) 119–135.
The clever info-byte I found under the by-line of this post's title comes from Hemisphere magazine; I can't recall which airline that is. The first sentence of the piece says it all:
" . . . you and your smartphone are in a pretty ugly codependent relationship." The article then recounts the key points from a study in the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication which demonstrated mild to severe separation anxiety - the feelings that set two-year-olds whining when parents leave them with a babysitter - when adults are separated from their smartphones for even short lengths of time. "During this round [of the experiment] heart rate, blood pressure and anxiety all rose and word-search ability plummeted."
I'm sympathetic. I feel the same way on those rare occasions when I carry my smart phone and the damned unexpectedly launches into some warbling electronic rant.
Clayton, R., Leshner, G., and Almond, A. (2015). The Extended iSelf: The Impact of iPhone Separation on Cognition, Emotion, and Physiology. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 20(2) 119–135.