Oman Daily Observer

Man’s smartphone catches fire in pants while shopping

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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.

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