{"id":210092,"date":"2025-03-30T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/those-constantly-distracted-by-their-phone-will-just-find-other-ways-to-procrastinate-if-it-isnt-nearby-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:18:19","slug":"those-constantly-distracted-by-their-phone-will-just-find-other-ways-to-procrastinate-if-it-isnt-nearby-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/those-constantly-distracted-by-their-phone-will-just-find-other-ways-to-procrastinate-if-it-isnt-nearby-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Those constantly distracted by their phone will just find other ways to procrastinate if it isn\u2019t nearby, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/those-constantly-distracted-by-their-phone-will-just-find-other-ways-to-procrastinate-if-it-isnt-nearby-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in <i>Frontiers in Computer Science<\/i> investigated if placing smartphones just out of our reach while we\u2019re at work influenced device use for activities not related to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus,\u201d said the paper\u2019s author Dr. Maxi Heitmayer, a researcher at the London School of Economics. \u201cThe problem is not rooted within the device itself, but in the habits and routines that we have developed with our devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Frontiers in Computer Science investigated if placing smartphones just out of our reach while we\u2019re at work influenced device use for activities not related to work. \u201cThe study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus,\u201d said the paper\u2019s author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}