You’re seated at a table with strangers in a busy restaurant. They nod at you, then continue using their phones without talking. Do you feel excluded?
Turns out, the answer depends a lot on cultural context!
Read more in our #OpenAccess paper ⬇️
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Elianne Albath
New #OpenAccess paper in Social Influence!
@ealbath.bsky.social R Greifeneder, and I studied how #culture shapes perceptions of #phubbing, feeling ignored when someone uses their phone, in six countries: 🇮🇳 🇰🇪 🇻🇪 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 & 🇬🇧 (flag test 😉)!
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1553...
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doi.org
Phubbing is feeling excluded and ignored by someone using a phone during a face-to-face interaction. Phubbing has mostly been investigated in Western samples. However, culture likely shapes whether...
