The effect is, at first glance, quite small -- Beshore cited his colleague Steven Chesley's comparison of this effect to the force you feel when you hold grapes in your hand.

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This has been done, but it is unsatisfactory because in a cross-country comparison many other things vary along with political institutions: it is impossible to isolate the effect of political arrangements on happiness.

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Robert K. Adair who is professor emeritus of physics at Yale points out that the energy from a cell phone is simply too low in comparison to the endogenous energy of the molecules in the cells in our body to possibly have any effect.

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