Is the smartphone a smart choice? The effect of smartphone separation on executive functions

• Main Authors: HARTANTO, Andree, YANG, Hwajin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Anxiety; Cognition; Executive functions; Smartphone addiction; Smartphone separation; Cognition and Perception; Cognitive Psychology; Communication Technology and New Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2054; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3311/viewcontent/SmartphoneSmartChoice_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite a huge spike in smartphone overuse, the cognitive and emotional consequences of smartphone overuse have rarely been examined empirically. In two studies, we investigated whether separation from a smartphone influences state anxiety and impairs higher-order cognitive processes, such as execut...