Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Ringxiety

Do you suffer from Ringxiety?

It is a familiar and unnerving sensation: the false belief that you can hear your mobile phone ringing or vibrating. Now the phenomenon is so widespread it has an official name: "ringxiety".

People have grown emotionally dependent on their mobiles for feelings of self-worth, claim psychologists.So when we "hear" an imaginary ring, or think vibrations on a bus are a call, it is the subconscious calculating how popular we are.

via The J-Walk Blog: Ringxiety

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