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Ever heard of 'phubbing'? You're probably guilty of it.

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01:58 14 Jun 2017


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Here's a new one for your vocabulary- phubbing.

Combining the word phone and the word snubbing, this is the act of ignoring your partner to focus on your phone.

According to a new study by Baylor University researchers in Texas it's on the rise- it's also been revealed we check our phones on average a whopper 150 times a day.

46 percent of the 450 couples studied said they have been phubbed, and 22 percent revealed it caused an argument.


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