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·June 14, 2023·5 min read

Limiting Social Media Use Boosts Mental Health

A simple intervention, limiting daily social media use, can significantly enhance the mental health of young adults. The two-week experiment involving 230 college students found that those who limited their social media usage to 30 minutes a day, aided by automated reminders, experienced significantly less anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

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·March 8, 2023·3 min read

Reducing Social Media Use by Just 15 Minutes a Day Can Improve Your Health

Reducing social media usage by 15 minutes a day can improve your general health, immune function, and improve symptoms of depression and loneliness.

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·February 3, 2023·2 min read

Medication Abortion TikTok Videos Tend to Be Accurate and Reliable

Researchers say Tik Tok videos that highlight ways to obtain medical abortions and information about procedures are accurate and informative.

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·February 1, 2023·3 min read

Joy at the Café: Tweets Reveal Where in Cities People Express Different Emotions

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.

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·January 17, 2023·3 min read

Technologically Assisted Communication May Impair Brain Development

Face-to-face interactions elicited nine significant cross-brain links between frontal and temporal areas of the brain, whereas remote communications elicited only one.

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·January 3, 2023·5 min read

Habitual Checking of Social Media May Impact Young Adolescents’ Brain Development

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.

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·November 17, 2022·5 min read

Social Media Could Open Doors for Studying Memory

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.

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·November 1, 2022·4 min read

TikTok Perpetuates Toxic Diet Culture Among Teens and Young Adults

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.

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·June 12, 2022·5 min read

Does Media Exposure Influence an Individual’s Risk of Radicalization?

Exposure to radicalized content online, both active and passive, was associated with a more meaningful relationship with radicalization.

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·May 29, 2022·4 min read

Social Media Data Show Language Related to Depression Didn’t Spike After Initial Pandemic Wave

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.

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·May 23, 2022·7 min read

‘I Don’t Even Remember What I Read’: People Enter a ‘Dissociative State’ When Using Social Media

Researchers investigate why we "space out" and stop paying attention to the world around us when we become engrossed in social media posts.

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·March 12, 2022·5 min read

Daily Photo Sharing Might Mean Double Depression Risk

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.