Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

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Two experiments proposing that the mere presence of one's own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity, most strongly in highly dependent users. A preregistered direct replication failed (ruizpardo2022), and the meta-analysis parry2024 finds only a small working-memory effect.

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