Dr. Larry Rosen discusses a study performed by Dr. Nancy Cheever in his article “Phantom Pocket Vibration Syndrome.” The study separated two groups of college students: one put their phones under the desk while the other turned their phones in. She administered a test to each student to determine anxiety every twenty minutes over the course of an hour. Dr. Cheever’s study found, that the group with their smart phones turned in showed higher instances of anxiety (“Phantom Pocket Vibration”). Granted, smart phones have multiple features that could create a dependency, yet people have become increasingly influenced by the fear of missing out. FoMO can be defined by the need to be constantly connected to other’s lives (“Suffering From FoMO”). Cheever’s
