A UBC Okanagan researcher suggests if your smartphone is interrupting social events or your productivity, think before you reach out and pick it up.
With more than four billion people around the globe owning a smartphone, researchers are now looking at ways to reduce a growing public health concern—problematic smartphone use.
Dr. Susan Holtzman teaches psychology in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She recently published a study in Mindfulness examining the overuse or dependence on smartphones and how it might be curbed with mindfulness techniques.
She discusses the issue and provides a few tips for people who might be “addicted to their devices”.
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