Monitored Alarm Systems

People are more likely to feel like Twitter and receive email from other desires, say U.S. researchers

tweeting or checking e-mails may be harder to resist cigarettes and alcohol, as researchers have attempted to measure how people can resist his desires.

even say that, although sleep and sex may be stronger pulse, people are more likely to give in to cravings or desire to use social media and others.

A team led by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago Booth School of Business University says her experience, using BlackBerry, to measure the strength of the will of 205 people aged between 18 and 85 around town German Würzburg is the first to follow the responses of this type "in the wild" outside of a laboratory.

Results will be published in the journal Psychological Science.

participants were scored seven times a day over 14 hours for seven consecutive days for them to post back if you feel a desire to that time or who had lived in the last 30 minutes , that such was the force (up to irresistible), is in conflict with the desires of others and if they resisted or have with it. There were 7827 responses and 10.558 episodes of "desire", they said.

Hofmann said: "We made clear to participants that meet the BlackBerry also lacked that people really did not feel the desire to use - just sounded from time to time and in any case , that's all. more annoying than nice, I guess. And there was nothing they can use the devices. "