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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

Joshua Gunn, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 1, pp 209-212
TLDR
The article reviews the book "Alone Together: Why the authors expect more from technology and less from each other," by Sherry Turkle.
Abstract
The article reviews the book "Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other," by Sherry Turkle.

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Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out

TL;DR: The present research presents three studies conducted to advance an empirically based understanding of the fear of missing out phenomenon, the Fear of Missing Out scale (FoMOs), which is the first to operationalize the construct.
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