Infants Recognize the Negative Impact of Phone Distraction on Performance.

Seeing adults use cellphones is a common daily experience for infants, yet little is known about how infants think about others' cellphone use. Do infants recognize that phone usage can affect the user's behavior? Here we asked whether infants expect a person's task performance to be impaired by pho...

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Publicado en:Infancy Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9
Autores principales: Cao, Qiong, Mears, Anna, Feigenson, Lisa
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar/Apr2025
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          Cao, Qiong
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          Cellular Phone Utilization
          Task Performance and Analysis Evaluation
          Infant Behavior Evaluation
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          Experimental Studies
          Adult
          Infant
          Comparative Studies
          Multitasking Behavior
          Infant Development
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
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      ab: Seeing adults use cellphones is a common daily experience for infants, yet little is known about how infants think about others' cellphone use. Do infants recognize that phone usage can affect the user's behavior? Here we asked whether infants expect a person's task performance to be impaired by phone use. Twenty‐month‐old infants watched adults building block towers. One adult did this while also using a phone, either looking at the screen and scrolling (Experiment 1; N = 24) or simply talking (Experiment 2; N = 24). Across both experiments, infants looked longer when the person who had been using the phone built a taller tower than the person who had not been using the phone, compared to the reverse. This suggests that infants expected phone usage to negatively impact performance. Thus, early in development, children recognize that cell phone use can affect people's goal‐directed actions; this may be one example of a broader understanding of the impact of multitasking on performance.
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