Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs

There is a prevailing belief that interruptions using cellular phones during face to face inter- actions may affect severely how people relate and perceive each other. We set out to deter- mine this cost quantitatively through an experiment performed in dyads, in a large audience in a TEDx event. On...

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Autores principales: López-Rosenfeld, Matías, Calero, Cecilia I., Fernandez Slezak, Diego, Garbulsky, Gerry, Bergman, Mariano, Trevisan, Marcos, Sigman, Mariano
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125772
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11073
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topic Atención
Comunicación
Teléfono móvil
Cuestionario
Attention
Social communication
Verbal communication
Cell phones
Emotions
Face
Questionnaires
spellingShingle Atención
Comunicación
Teléfono móvil
Cuestionario
Attention
Social communication
Verbal communication
Cell phones
Emotions
Face
Questionnaires
López-Rosenfeld, Matías
Calero, Cecilia I.
Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Garbulsky, Gerry
Bergman, Mariano
Trevisan, Marcos
Sigman, Mariano
Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
description There is a prevailing belief that interruptions using cellular phones during face to face inter- actions may affect severely how people relate and perceive each other. We set out to deter- mine this cost quantitatively through an experiment performed in dyads, in a large audience in a TEDx event. One of the two participants (the speaker) narrates a story vividly. The lis- tener is asked to deliberately ignore the speaker during part of the story (for instance, at- tending to their cell-phone). The speaker is not aware of this treatment. We show that total amount of attention is the major factor driving subjective beliefs about the story and the con- versational partner. The effects are mostly independent on how attention is distributed in time. All social parameters of human communication are affected by attention time with a sole exception: the perceived emotion of the story. Interruptions during day-to-day commu- nication between peers are extremely frequent. Our data should provide a note of caution, by indicating that they have a major effect on the perception people have about what they say (whether it is interesting or not . . .) and about the virtues of the people around them.
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author López-Rosenfeld, Matías
Calero, Cecilia I.
Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Garbulsky, Gerry
Bergman, Mariano
Trevisan, Marcos
Sigman, Mariano
author_facet López-Rosenfeld, Matías
Calero, Cecilia I.
Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Garbulsky, Gerry
Bergman, Mariano
Trevisan, Marcos
Sigman, Mariano
author_sort López-Rosenfeld, Matías
title Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
title_short Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
title_full Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
title_fullStr Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
title_full_unstemmed Neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
title_sort neglect in human communication : quantifying the cost of cell-phone interruptions in face to face dialogs
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url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125772
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11073
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