A new study found teens who reported their parents were often distracted by devices were more likely to be insecure.

Recent research suggests that ignoring people to focus on our phones may reveal how we feel about ourselves. When was the last moment you truly felt at peace without your phone within easy reach? For ...

Do you find yourself instinctively scrolling through your phone in the middle of a conversation? Or checking your email during a movie date? It's called "phubbing": the impolite habit when you ignore ...

Phones can sometimes distract us from our partners, but they don’t necessarily have to hurt your relationship if you are both effective communicators. We use our phones for everything. Whether for ...

Phubbing, aka the act of ignoring the person you're with and staring at your phone instead, is a uniquely 2019 problem. Be honest, you've phubbed before. And maybe even regularly! Most of us are ...

Smartphones and tablets have a way of instantly derailing meaningful conversations—or even a juicy gossip session with your bestie—the moment someone picks up their device. Just like that, attention ...

Have you ever been around people who spend more time looking at their phone than they do at you? Then you know what it feels like to be "phubbed" – and you're probably guilty of doing it yourself.

Ignoring is perhaps the worst form of snubbing someone. Preferring your mobile phone over chitchatting with your friend or partner is no less punishing. Phubbing or the practice of staying glued to ...

Sometimes there’s nothing better than looking at your phone: whiling away the hours on TikTok; catching up with the absurd meme of the moment; answering “urgent” emails from your boss at 11PM on a ...

While gazing at the stars and soaking in the beauty of the late summer’s night sky in September 2019, Heather Cox looked adoringly over at her husband, Wes, hoping to romantically lock eyes beneath ...

‘PHUBBING’ is the new term for a long-running trend which is being blamed for wrecking relationships up and down the country. Thankfully, it’s not quite as rude as it sounds: phubbing actually refers ...