Man’s smartphone catches fire in pants while shopping
to stimulus such as a sight of or notifications from social media, System 2 is a reflective, reasoning system that moves more slowly, regulates cognitions and controls behaviours, according to Hamed Qahri-Saremi, assistant professor at DePaul University.
The second system can help results showed that individuals who displayed higher levels of problematic use of Facebook had a strong cognitive-emotional WASHINGTON: In a bizarre preoccupation (system 1) and incident, a man had to take off his a weak cognitive-behavioural pants inside a Costco shop here, as his control (system 2), creating an smartphone caught fire in his pocket, imbalance. In fact, the greater the reports said. imbalance between the two systems, “He had taken the pants off and the more likely individuals were to tied the jacket around his waist. And engage in problematic social media I thought that was unusual, and I use behaviours, the researchers said. looked down, and then there was
In addition, this problematic what looked like to be what’s left of use of Facebook also negatively a cell phone,” Everett Tyrrell, an eye affected the students’ academic witness was quoted as saying to kiro7. individuals control impulses and performance. The higher the com on Friday. behaviours that are not in their best problematic use, the lower was the Tyrrell said smoke filled the “That was very weird to me. I’d interest, he added. GPA score. hardware aisle and employees of never seen anything like that in my
For the study, detailed in the “A slight increase in problematic the warehouse came to the man’s life. It’s amazing how much heat must Journal of Management Information social media use translates into aid, spraying the phone with a fire have been generated to cause all that Systems, the team obtained responses significant grade loss, and this extinguisher. smoke from that small item,” Tyrrell from 341 undergraduate said.collegedeclinedperformanceispersistent,”Althoughthemanwasnotinjured, students fromCa North American added Ofir Turel from California the smartphone was reduced to ashes ostco staff gave the man a new university who use Facebook. The State University. and also left a burn mark on the floor. pair of pants.