This book focuses on the effects of phubbing by parents on their children partners on their
partners bosses on their employees friends on their friends and family members on other
family members. Having synthesised the findings from published research about the specific
effects on these phubbed individuals in important relationships the book then presents an
exposition of the psychological predictors of phubbing (the triggers) followed by a broader
account of the psychological effects of phubbing behaviour. The final chapter looks at the role
of social norms in explaining the act of phubbing beyond the individual predictors that trigger
the behaviour as it tries to draw a connection between phubbing and social theory.
