The brain in your pocket: Evidence that Smartphones are used to supplant thinking

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Highlights：

• Novel framing of Smartphone use as instantiation of extended mind.

• Lower analytic thinking associates with increased Smartphone use.

• Results suggest that people offload thinking to the device.

• Supports conceptualization of Smartphone use as a type of cognitive miserliness.

摘要

•Novel framing of Smartphone use as instantiation of extended mind.•Lower analytic thinking associates with increased Smartphone use.•Results suggest that people offload thinking to the device.•Supports conceptualization of Smartphone use as a type of cognitive miserliness.

论文关键词：Smartphone use,Internet use,Cognitive miserliness,Dual-process theories,Extended mind,Situated cognition

论文评审过程：Available online 24 February 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.029