Why You Think Your Phone Just Buzzed

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Start learning a new language today with Babbel! Sign up for a three-month subscription and get three additional months for free! go.babbel.com/6m3-youtube-scishow-jan-2020/default Have you ever thought you felt your phone vibrate, only to pull it out of your pocket and find that you have no new notifications? If so, you've experienced 'phantom vibration syndrome.' But what causes these mystery sensations, and are they cause for alarm? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Signal Detection Theory Book (2002) books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sQ1nDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=signal+detection+theory+definition&ots=83s_PfVcnB&sig=3p6XasiYEZLA_OkWuO65IhZWuVc#v=onepage&q=signal%20detection%20theory%20definition&f=false Phantom phone vibration in BMJ (2010) www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6914.long Phantom phone buzzing in PLOS (2013) journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065152 Stress and burnout (2014) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310551/ High Ringxiety: attachment anxiety predicts experiences of phantom cell phone ringing (2016) deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/140350/cyber.2015.0406.pdf;jsessionid=B2E0CA1829BF58B78C09E37895C2EF86?sequence=1 Phantom buzz in Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (2018) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6149296/#ref5 Anxiety, depression and phantom vibration in India (2019) media.proquest.com/media/hms/PFT/1/vXqqA?_s=AmFmzJ6XdOfUh%2FQ%2BX8K1ciHbS8g%3D

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