How your smartphone distracts you even when you're not using it

How good are you at resisting the pull of the pings emitted by your smartphone on a daily basis? Turns out those alerts can be distracting whether or not we act on them.Academics from Florida State University have found that phone notifications make our minds wander, even if we don't pick up the handset - we start thinking about what the alerts could be and how we might respond to them."Although these notifications are generally short in duration, they can prompt task-irrelevant thoughts, o