“The act of texting has been associated with significant increases in measures of physiological arousal such as heart rate, respiration, skin conductance, and muscle tension (Lin & Peper, 2009)2. Therefore, frequent texting could threaten an individual’s health by creating a physiological state that is inconsistent with re- laxation or sleep in the short-term and may produce allosteric load across time.” (Murdock, 2013). A