Reducing social media usage by 15 minutes a day can improve your general health, immune function, and improve symptoms of depression and loneliness.
Researchers say Tik Tok videos that highlight ways to obtain medical abortions and information about procedures are accurate and informative.
Using data from Twitter, researchers were able to determine specific events and locations within cities that were associated with different emotions. Train stations and transportation sites were associated with less joy and more disgust, while hotels and restaurants were linked to a greater expression of joy.
Face-to-face interactions elicited nine significant cross-brain links between frontal and temporal areas of the brain, whereas remote communications elicited only one.
Adolescents' brains may become more sensitive when anticipating social rewards and punishments over time with increased social media usage. The findings reveal how social media usage could have important and long-standing consequences for brain development.
Social media presents a new way for researchers to study memory. User-created media can evoke memories of emotion, location, time and other memory content all at once.
The most viewed content on TikTok associated with food, nutrition, and weight perpetuates a toxic diet culture among teens and young adults, a new study reports.
Exposure to radicalized content online, both active and passive, was associated with a more meaningful relationship with radicalization.
Using AI to analyze language associated with depression on social media during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found people were more resilient than previously thought.
Researchers investigate why we "space out" and stop paying attention to the world around us when we become engrossed in social media posts.
Researchers link photo sharing on social media with increased depression risks. Depression symptoms that required treatment more than doubled by the third wave of the COVID pandemic in those who routinely shared photos via social media.
Researchers discovered people with a specific variant of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR follow more people on Instagram. However, there no evidence was found to suggest gene-environment interactions influence online sociability.
