Updated On: 08 March, 2018 08:56 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Turning off push notifications and setting up appropriate times to check your phone can go a long way to regain control over smartphone addiction

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Are you branded as anti-social for being glued to your smartphones? Take heart -- for, according to a study, smartphone addiction could be a hyper-social behaviour that stems from the healthy human desire to socialise. Researchers have found that besides the desire to watch and monitor others, the longing to be seen and monitored by others, runs deep in our evolutionary past.