According to Dixit, up to 25% nomophobes reported accidents while messaging or talking on the phone, which includes minor road accidents, falling while going upstairs or downstairs and stumbling while walking.

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Back at his apartment, on the third floor of an old brick building within walking distance of campus, techno music suddenly blared, startling his downstairs neighbors, who knocked on his door and called police to complain.

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