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They keep checking their watches, knowing they have to return to the buses before the clock ticks down.
Or they keep checking their email because they're looking for validation, or getting attention feels good," she said.
They keep checking Twitter and their e-mail because they are worried about being out of the loop if they don't.The makers of habit-forming products have clearly read the works of B.F. Skinner, the father of "radical behaviourism", who found that training subjects by rewarding them in a variable, unpredictable way works best.
This could end up giving BB10 users a nervous thumb-twitch — i.e. as they keep checking to see if anything off-screen needs their immediate attention.
It's bad enough that EA doesn't trust its customers when they activate their games, but the fact that they keep checking on you stinks of hubris.
They keep checking their former fling's Twitter and Instagram accounts, wondering what went wrong.
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They kept checking in.
I'm so grateful they kept checking up on me.
"I was taken into a back room and they kept checking my documents for so long that I thought I was going to miss my connecting flight.
There was constant monitoring in hospitals - 'they keep checking and giving us a probable time of birth'.
O.K., so this isn't a hot spot, it's New York, but we're still hoping the word gets around with visiting journalists and with local journalists, and they'll just keep checking in".
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