News Finding: It's difficult to overstate the awesome, world-changing power of the smartphone.
Paper Finding: We pre-registered our analysis plan on OSF; see http://tinyurl.com/ z7xe43d.
News Context: It's difficult to overstate the awesome, world-changing power of the smartphone. The sum total of human knowledge now fits in your pocket, and it comes bundled with easy access to all of your favorite people, music and photographs. No one questions a smartphone's usefulness when it's used judiciously.
Paper Context: The participants responded to a total of 3008 ESM surveys (68.6% of surveys sent), of which 1244 were episodes when they were interacting with others face-to-face. We pre-registered our analysis plan on OSF; see http://tinyurl.com/ z7xe43d. As predicted, during episodes that included face-to-face social interactions (N = 1244), people reported feeling more distracted when they used their smartphones than when they did not, b = 0.95, SE = 0.11, t(91.98) = 8.23 p < .001 (see Table 5 for means).