The Relationship Between Cell Phone Addiction, Anxiety, and Performance Students' subtle interests in cell phones have been replaced with an obsessive attachment. Cell phones are owned by approximately 96% of all college students and provide a constant distraction that rarely leaves the side of the user (Smith, Rainie, & Zickuhr, 2011). A study conducted by Junco and Cotten (2012) interviewed “over 1649 college students and found that they (the students) spend 97 minutes a day texting, 118 minutes searching the Internet, 41 minutes on Facebook, 49 minutes sending emails and 51 minutes talking on the Internet.” their cell phone;” that's a total of 356 minutes spent on cell phones every day. Since so many students spend so much of their time on cell phones, it's understandable that they may become addicted to their phones. This addiction to cell phones creates an atmosphere filled with an endless demand for attention (Junco & Cotten, 2012). This demand for attention from students can take a heavy toll on their overall well-being, possibly affecting their level of anxiety when they are not allowed to touch their cell phones. Lepp, Barkley, Sanders, Rebold, and Gates (2013, p. 79) assume “that college students' cell phone use is negatively associated with academic performance and mental and physical health.” In this study, the relationship between performance and anxiety will be evaluated, as well as the effect of dependence on these two variables. Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a causal relationship between cell phone addiction on the one hand and anxiety and performance on the other. Previous research has shown that students spend a large amount of time on cell phones... half of the paper... 64 additional stimuli presented are old or new. They will be instructed by the experimenter and guided by the indications on the screen to press the "o" key if the sound is old and to press the "n" key if the sound is new. One half of the trials will be new, while the other half will consist of stimuli previously heard by the auditory study, thus making them old sounds. Finally, participants will complete a short questionnaire (see Appendix B) about demographic information including items such as gender, race, age, etc. However, because it is critical to keep the purpose of the study secret, questions regarding participants' cell phones will be vague and brief. Once the study is completed, emails will be sent to participants as a debriefing method to inform them of the deception in the study. Participants will be able to ask questions if necessary.