PAYING ATTENTION? AN EXPERIMENT OF COGNITION AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL UNDER THE MERE PRESENCE OF A SMARTPHONE

• Authors: Petr Kryštof , Dostál Daniel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While smartphones enhance communication and productivity, they may negatively affect mental health and cognitive performance. They can be distractive where the risk can have substantial consequences (e.g., in traffic, while working). Even when not in use, smartphones can be distracting and reduce cognitive capacity. This mere presence of smartphones has been described as having an adverse impact on social interaction and cognitive performance. Since creativity is also an increasingly important skill for finding new and useful ideas, the impact of mere presence on creative thinking should be investigated, as considerable evidence is missing. The first goal of this study is to replicate the reduction effect of the mere presence of one's smartphone on cognitive capacity and test the effect of the dependency relationship on this hypothesized reduction. The second goal is to investigate this effect on divergent thinking.

Keywords

EN

ATTENTION; SMARTPHONE; DIVERGENT THINKING; MERE PRESENCE; SMARTPHONE DEPENDENCY

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: -

Contributors

author

Petr Kryštof

• Department of Psychology, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6372-5189

author

Dostál Daniel

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5489-7907

Identifiers

DOI

doi.org/10.31577/cas.2023.01.615