The person who has the cell phone is capable of exerting control over the other family members so they're much more powerful. I bet in any house that utilizes cell phones and pagers that this is one of the issues. Control is a big thing with Pete, in our business with subordinates, and in the business he's now in there's a pecking order. They all have cell phones and they all have skypagers.
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Darrah et al. (1997) studied this question.