Products and services empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming widespread in
today's marketplace. However, consumers have mixed feelings about AI technologies due to …

The popularity of smartphones is undeniable in nearly all facets of society. Despite the many
benefits attributed to the technology, concern has grown over the potential for excessive …

Introduction Several studies have documented increases in adolescent loneliness and
depression in the US, UK, and Canada after 2012, but it is unknown whether these trends …

Despite the increasing phenomena of supervisor phubbing (a counterproductive workplace
behaviour of managers), very few studies have explored its outcomes in organisations. This …

Despite the increased use of Enterprise Social Media (ESM) worldwide, its adverse impact
on firms' employees, such as exhaustion, has not been researched sufficiently. This is a …

This research experimentally investigated the social consequences of “phubbing”–the act of
snubbing someone in a social setting by concentrating on one's mobile phone. Participants …

Smartphones allow people to connect with others from almost anywhere at any time.
However, there is growing concern that smartphones may actually sometimes detract, rather …

One of the relatively new negative consequences of smartphone use is
“phubbing”(snubbing someone while an individual checks their smartphone in the middle of …

Phubbing is a kind of social exclusion and is used to indicate the interruption mobile phone
usage has on a social relationship. Theoretical and practical evidence illustrates that …

This paper introduces boss phubbing (phone snubbing), defined as an employee's
perception that his/her immediate supervisor is distracted by his/her smartphone while in …