Today we cannot live without our smart phone but do you know these smartphones are making us stupid. According to a study smartphones are making people lazier than ever as Googling’ information is making them mentally lazy. The study was carried out by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and involved studying 660 people.
The team looked at various measures of brain power and cognitive skills ranging from intuitive to analytical, along with verbal and numeracy skills.
They also asked all of those taking part to write down their smartphone habits. The findings showed a clear link between less time spent on the phone and stronger cognitive skills and greater willingness to think in an analytical way.
The co-lead author of the study said that heavy smartphone users may look up information that they actually know ‘but are unwilling to make the effort to actually think about it’.
The study also claimed that moodiness, loneliness and jealousy are all key indicators of smartphone addiction, along with an obsession with physical appearance, the University of Derby study found. Besides that a significant positive relationship was found between narcissism and addiction to the phones, suggesting that the more narcissistic a person is, the more likely they are to be addicted to their smartphone.
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