'Halfalogue': Overheard cell-phone conversations are not only annoying but reduce our attention

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 10:35 in Psychology & Sociology

"Yeah, I'm on my way home." "That's funny." "Uh-huh." "What? No! I thought you were - " "Oh, ok." Listening to someone talk on a cell phone is very annoying. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds out why: Hearing just one side of a conversation is much more distracting than hearing both sides and reduces our attention in other tasks.

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