Does Keeping Your Phone in Another Room Help You Focus?
Does putting your phone in another room help you focus? Studies find nearby phones can reduce capacity for some tasks, but effects are mixed and depend on the task.
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Studies: Albulescu 2022 N=2335 d=0.36/0.35, Grobelny 2024 N=308, Yildirim 2026, Ward 2017 2 exp, Hartmann 2020, Skowronek 2023, Böttger 2023 22/43, Yang 2024 15min, Jiang 2025, Hancock 2019 63/1094.
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