On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:55:55 +0300, netcat
<netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <ft1c4c$e2m$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>> netcat <netcat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > For me, the main cause of mobile related stress is not being out of
>> > contact myself, but rather being unable to reach other people who I
>> > know should be reachable.
>>
>> For me, the main cause of mobile related stress is people talking
>> loudly on their cell phones on the Metro while I'm trying to read.
>
>You wouldn't be bothered if they were conversing just as loudly with
>someone who was right there?
I have read reports of simple pysch experiments which show that people
do, in fact, find it significantly more annoying to hear one end of a
stranger's loud conversation than both ends of it. There are several
possible explanations, the most obvious being that the brain will work
hard to fill in the missing side even if you don't "consciously" care
about the conversation at all. Also, without the other half of the
conversation, the statements of the local party are more unpredictable
and thus more distracting.
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