According to Life Science about 19.2 million Americans ages 18 and over (approximately 8.7 percent
of people in this age group in a given year) experience some type of specific
phobia. Turns out that Andrew
Przybylski, a psychologist at the University of Essex in England, decided to
study a phobia: the fomo phenomenon. He and colleagues reportedly tested a
32-item questionnaire on approximately 1,000 individuals (from USA, India, and
other countries) and pared it down to ten questions that focused on a fear of
missing out. Then they surveyed a national sample of 2,079 residents in the
United Kingdom, ages 22-65 in an attempt to rate their level of fomo. The
results were reported in the journal the study published in the journal Computers
in Human Behavior. More tomorrow.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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