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Phubbing is a new word that’s made it into Australian dictionaries and means snubbing someone by paying more attention to your phone than to them. It’s a familiar situation; you go and meet someone, they get a text and soon they’re checking their emails and every other social media app, while you sit there waiting. After a particular experience of his own, Varoth Chotpitayasunondh, from the University of Kent, UK, decided to carry out research into the psychology of phubbing and found that it can affect relationships and mental health. (Image: People looking at their phones, Credit: Getty Images.)