'Googling' information is making us mentally lazy, study claims.
Smartphones are making us less able to think for ourselves, researchers have claimed.
A study has shown that people who have strong cognitive skills spend less time on their devices than those with less brain power.
Those who think in an analytical way also pick up their phone less frequently because they remember things or are able to work problems out for themselves.
Smartphones are making us less able to think for ourselves, researchers have claimed. Gordon Pennycook, a PhD candidate and co-lead author of the study, said that heavy smartphone users may look up information that they actually know ‘but are unwilling to make the effort to actually think about it’ (stock image shown)
The study said that smartphones were making people lazier than ever as we saw them as an ‘extension of our mind’.
