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Social and behavioural

Seven new deadly sins: 5) Mobile abuse

This post is part of the Research Digest’s Sin Week. Each day for seven days we’ll be posting a confession, a new sin and a way to be good.

11 February 2011

By Christian Jarrett

Mobile abuse: 'Shouting into your cell phone on the bus, or as the curtain is going up at the opera – that happened to me,' says Helen Fisher at Rutgers University.

'I mean where are these people coming from, where is their brain? It is extreme narcissism.'