Cell Bound: Why It Is Hard to Ignore Public Mobile Phone Conversations

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 09:29 in Psychology & Sociology

Like many of her fellow undergraduates at the University of British Columbia, Lauren Emberson relied on public transportation to get around town. All too often, Emberson encountered a seemingly inescapable nuisance inside TransLink --Vancouver's crowded mass transit buses and trains: other passengers' cell phone conversations. [More] Mobile phone - University of British Columbia - TransLink - Lauren Emberson - cell phone

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