For electric vehicle manufacturers, finding more proactive ways to assuage people’s fears is essential to ensuring their tech gets adopted. It’s a vicious cycle: When the battery dies, you feel even more cut off from the things you already feel cut off from.īut, as you may have heard, batteries are supposed to be the future.
Most people offload various parts of their lives to their phones, from important meeting times to family photos to food delivery, and dead batteries cut those tethers too. Of course, it’s not just the socially anxious who suffer. “But if you use your mobile phone to avoid in-person relationships, you create communication dependency.” So it’s extra traumatic when the phone dies-there go your relationships. “The basic purpose of the mobile phone is to allow people to be in two different places to communicate instantly, eliminating the human anxiety about loneliness,” she says. Uysal discovered that the more social anxiety a student demonstrated, the more likely they were to fear the loss of their smartphones.Īnxious people, Uysal found, relied on their mobile phones more to maintain their personal relationships.
Nomophobia has gotten a bad reputation for frivolity-nobody needs to have constant access to Candy Crush-but according to Şengül Uysal, who has studied nomophobia among college students at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in Turkey, the fear has deep roots. Anxiety about dying batteries is the major trigger for “nomophobia,” or fear of being without a smartphone.
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