{"id":1355,"date":"2018-03-29T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T08:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:22:20","slug":"phubbing-can-threaten-our-basic-human-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/03\/29\/phubbing-can-threaten-our-basic-human-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Phubbing\u2019 can threaten our basic human needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ignoring someone you\u2019re with in a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone \u2013 called \u2018phubbing\u2019 \u2013 can have a negative effect on relationships by threatening our basic human need to belong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kent Psychologists studied the effect on individuals of being phubbed in a one-to-one social situation.<\/p>\n<p>They found that increased phubbing significantly and negatively affected the way the person being phubbed felt about their interaction with the other person.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers Varoth Chotpitayasunondh and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/douglask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Karen Douglas<\/a>, of Kent\u2019s School of Psychology, considered phubbing a specific form of social exclusion that threatens people\u2019s fundamental human needs: belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence and control.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full news story, go to Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/17584\/phubbing-can-threaten-our-basic-human-needs-research-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News Centre page<\/a>.\u00a0The study, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jasp.12506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The effects of \u2018phubbing\u2019 on social interaction <\/a>(Varoth Chotpitayasunondh &amp; Karen M. Douglas) is published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring someone you\u2019re with in a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone \u2013 called \u2018phubbing\u2019 \u2013 can have a negative effect on relationships &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/03\/29\/phubbing-can-threaten-our-basic-human-needs\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}