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Why are mobile phones annoying?

Pages 33-41 | Published online: 03 Feb 2007

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Andrew Monk, Evi Fellas & Eleanor Ley. (2004) Hearing only one side of normal and mobile phone conversations. Behaviour & Information Technology 23:5, pages 301-305.
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