Kenapa HP terasa bergetar padahal tidak ada notifikasi?

Phantom vibration syndrome: why you feel your phone buzz

Sembilan dari sepuluh pengguna ponsel pernah mengalaminya. Otak sengaja menurunkan ambang alarm supaya tidak ketinggalan pesan, jadi gesekan kain pun terasa seperti getaran.

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Penjelasannya

Kamu merasa HP di saku bergetar. Begitu dicek: tidak ada pesan, tidak ada notifikasi. Kamu tidak berkhayal dan tidak sendirian: sekitar sembilan dari sepuluh pengguna smartphone mengalaminya. Ilmuwan menyebutnya phantom vibration syndrome, dan gangguannya ada di otak, bukan di HP.

Korteks sensorik dibanjiri ribuan sensasi kecil: kain yang bergesekan dengan kaki atau kedutan otot. Karena otak terus menantikan dopamin dari pesan masuk, ambang "alarm"-nya diturunkan setipis mungkin.

Otak menghitung bahwa mengecek HP kosong tidak merugikan apa-apa, sedangkan melewatkan panggilan penting bisa mahal. Maka gesekan celana jeans pun sengaja diterjemahkan menjadi notifikasi hantu, untuk berjaga-jaga.

Diagram dari video

Diagram GeeGit: You felt your phone vibrate in your pocket. You pull it out: zero messages, zero notifications. — “You felt your phone vibrate in your pocket. You pull it out: zero messages, zero notifications.”

Diagram GeeGit: Scientists call it Phantom Vibration Syndrome. And the glitch isn't in your phone: it's in your brain. — “Scientists call it Phantom Vibration Syndrome. And the glitch isn't in your phone: it's in your brain.”

Diagram GeeGit: Because your brain is constantly anticipating dopamine from incoming texts, it sets its alert threshold razor thin. — “Because your brain is constantly anticipating dopamine from incoming texts, it sets its alert threshold razor thin.”

Transkrip video (English)

You felt your phone vibrate in your pocket. You pull it out: zero messages, zero notifications.

You aren't imagining things, and you aren't alone: nine out of ten smartphone users experience this regularly.

Scientists call it Phantom Vibration Syndrome. And the glitch isn't in your phone: it's in your brain.

Your sensory cortex is flooded with thousands of tiny sensations: clothes rubbing against your leg, or minor muscle spasms.

Because your brain is constantly anticipating dopamine from incoming texts, it sets its alert threshold razor thin.

Your brain calculates that checking an empty phone costs nothing, but missing an urgent call costs a lot.

So it deliberately turns the friction of your jeans into a phantom notification, just in case.

Sumber

Computers in Human Behavior (Drouin et al.)
APA

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