When Shiri Melumad was working on her doctorate in 2012, she found herself reaching for her smartphone during moments of stress, before a tough exam, for example. She didn’t always use it, she just held it. It was comforting.
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Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?
“For many of us, our phone represents an attachment object, much as a security blanket or teddy bear does for a child,” one expert says
By Marlene Cimons
February 26, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. EST