In the article "Your iPhone Is Ruining Your Posture -- and Your Mood" written by Amy Cuddy on Dec 12, 2015 professor at Harvard business school and author, states how technology devices are ruining our posture, our mood, and our health. It is also disrupting family time or not getting things done due to being on our smartphones. I don 't think people have considered on how badly these electronic devices can ruin our posture and hurt us in insidious psychological ways. Smartphones are ruining our posture. "If you 're in a public place, look around: How many people are hunched over a phone? Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve august class the iHunch." The quote is significant because this is …show more content…
When bending our necks forward about 60 degrees as to use our phones the effective stress in or neck increase to 60 pounds. "Posture doesn 't just reflect our emotional states; it can also cause them." In a study published in health psychology earlier this year, Shwetha Nair and her colleagues assigned non depressed participants to sit in an upright or slouch posture and then had them answer a mock job interview question, a well-established experimental stress inducer, followed by a series of questionnaires." To be more specific the usage of our smartphones may cause humps or more known as hunchbacks. Posture causes us to feel certain types emotional ways, lower self-esteem, and depression. How else might smartphones affect us? Well slouching can affect our memory too. In a study published in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of people with clinical depression. Participants were randomly chosen to sit in a slouched or an upright position and were given a list of positive and negative words. A few minutes later they were asked to recall those words and the slouchers showed a negative recall bias which means they remembered the bad stuff more than the good stuff. The upright showed no such