The Results of Multitasking Everyone tries to multi-task at some point or another. Sometimes he/she succeeds and sometimes not. Most people believe that they are great multi-taskers, but that is not always so. In fact, in some instances trying to multi-task can put someone in a possibly dangerous situation. When can it be dangerous? For example, Texting or talking on a cell phone while driving can be very dangerous to do simultaneously. As featured in an issue of the Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, Professor of Communication at Ohio State University, Zheng Wang, conducted a new study to determine how well a group of people perform a visual task while texting/talking at the same time. Wang’s study used two multitasking setups
