(名詞) 查看電子郵件時不知不覺地暫停呼吸。亦寫成 e-mail apnea。

引句：
Researchers say that the stress of not being able to process information as fast as it arrives, combined with the personal and social expectation that, say, you will answer every e-mail message, can deplete and demoralize you. … Author Linda Stone, who coined the term “continuous partial attention” to describe the mental state of today’s knowledge workers, says she’s now noticing, get this, “e-mail apnea“: the unconscious suspension of regular and steady breathing when people tackle their e-mail.
—Paul Hemp, “Death by Information Overload,” Harvard Business Review, September 1, 2009

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