What does this title mean?
The reason people tend to walk when talking on the phone is because they are subconsciously looking for the person talking. That’s what the title means
That might be one reason that happens, but I highly doubt it’s the sole or even main contributing factor. How could this even be proven? Some light googling returned zero scientific studies and one clickbaity article with no sources.
I’m a phone walker because with only a disembodied voice to listen to, I can find it hard to concentrate on it (I blame ADD). Walking adds just enough of a distraction from my monkey brain to make it easier to follow the conversation.
Interestingly add is actually a outdated term Now it’s just ADHD with a emphasis on inattentiveness
Oh how interesting. I don’t find myself fidgety quite so much as an adult. Why do they always include the H do you know?
Neat! Yeah, I’m sure it can help people focus and maybe “trying to find them” plays a part in that, I just find it very hard to believe and have seen no proof one way or another. Not that it matters, it’s just a cute li’l Internet picture!
I’m agreeing with your assessment btw! I really don’t feel like I’m searching for them
It makes sense evolutionarily speaking imo
A lot of things make “sense” evolutionarily speaking that are wrong
Even if it did make sense evolutionarily (which it doesn’t imo, how would the “trait” of walking aimlessly while talking on the phone ever even get “selected” for by nature?), that doesn’t make it fact. Don’t present fanciful notions as fact if you don’t want to have similar interactions on the Internet. It’s a cute picture though!
It wasn’t selected for. The way I see it, it’s a side effect of humans being evolved for social interaction. Generally when humans would communicate they would see the human they are talking to.
Edit: Your brain has evolved to have conversations face- to-face, which typically involves movement and gesture. Conversing over the phone is an extremely recent part of our evolutionary past. When you talk on the phone, moving and gesturing is pretty useless, but the parts of your brain that are responsible for all that still get activated. So you get up and wander around for lack of anything better to do. (| think there’s also some aspects involving learning style, so if you’re the kind of person who learns best by doing, then physical movement facilitates your thought processes.)
Also this could very well be related to how creative thinking maybe linked to physical movement which makes a full circle back to pattern recognition improvements and human evolution towards recognizing face patterns. (Source)
None of that says anything about “trying to find them”. Again, I just don’t even know how you could scientifically prove such a claim. And I really don’t care.
If you’re yelling / talking to someone who’s far away, do you move towards them?
My pacing pattern is very predictably elliptical.
