What would we do without our smartphones, without being able to stay in touch with friends or catch the latest news immediately or watch a movie on a really tiny screen?
Many of us have become dependent to the point that smartphones are almost like a new appendage, and for teens who’ve never known a world without smartphones, the absence would be even more dramatic.
Matthew Lapierre, assistant professor at the University of Arizona, has released a study on smartphone dependency and which came first: loneliness that leads to dependency on the phones or depression related to that dependency.
He joined The Show to talk about his research.
