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A new study from Iowa State University has identified some of the central aspects of nomophobia -- that's "no mobile phone" phobia -- with a handy new 20-question survey measuring iPhone codependence.Scroll down to take the quiz. 爱荷华州立大学 "Nomophobia is considered a modern age phobia introduced to our lives as a byproduct of the interaction between people and mobile information and communication technologies, especially smartphones," Caglar Yildirim, one of the study's authors, told The Huffington Post in an email. "It refers to fear of not being able to use a smartphone ... [and] it refers to the fear of not being able to communicate, losing the connectedness that smartphones allow, not being able to access information through smartphones, and giving up the convenience that smartphones provide." 本次研究的负责人之一卡格拉•耶尔德勒姆 The research builds on a University of Missouri study published in January. which found that bring separated from your iPhone can have a real psychological and physiological effect, including impaired thinking. 早在今年一月，密苏里州的一所大学发表的研究报告表明，把iPhone从身边拿开会对人们的生理和心理均带来一定影响，甚至使他们不能正常思考。爱荷华州立大学的本次研究即是基于这份报告的成果。 "iPhones are capable of becoming an extension of our selves such that when separated, we experience a lessening of 'self' and a negative physiological state," Russell Clayton, a doctoral candidate and the study's lead author, said in a statement. | 
