'Halfalogue': Overheard cell-phone conversations are not only annoying but reduce our attention

'Yeah, I'm on my way home.' 'That's funny.' 'Uh-huh.' 'What? No! I thought you were - ' 'Oh, ok.' Listening to someone talk on a cell phone is very annoying. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds out why: Hearing just one side of a conversation is much more distracting than hearing both sides and reduces our attention in other tasks...

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