We Keep Checking Our Phones While Socializing: Key Points
- Most people perceive phone-snubbing as harmful but continue to do it.
- We tend to think our own phone use during an interaction affects others less than their phone use affects us.
- People attribute more positive motives to their own phone use than to others' use.
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