By RYOSUKE NONAKA/ Staff Writer
October 28, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Hisashi Murakami and his colleagues monitor two groups of college students in Tokyo in December 2019 who were asked by walk normally down a street while three students on the right side were glued to their smartphones. (Provided by Hisashi Murakami, an assistant professor of collective behavioral science at the Kyoto Institute of Technology)
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