Sentiments toward COVID-19 vaccines, whether positive or negative, previews subsequent vaccination rates, finds a study of related Twitter posts. The results offer new insights into the influence of social media on public ...
May 15, 2022
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied how the screen habits of U.S. children correlates with how their cognitive abilities develop over time. They found that the children who spent an above-average time ...
May 13, 2022
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Asking people to stop using social media for just one week could lead to significant improvements in their well-being, depression and anxiety, and could in the future be recommended as a way to help people manage their mental ...
May 5, 2022
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You might be surprised to learn how rarely health research accounts for the fact that male and female bodies are different.
Apr 21, 2022
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People may be willing to condone statements they know to be false and even spread misinformation on social media if they believe those statements could become true in the future, according to research published by the American ...
Apr 14, 2022
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Rising parental expectations and criticism are linked to an increase in perfectionism among college students, which can have damaging mental health consequences, according to new research published by the American Psychological ...
Mar 31, 2022
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Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists.
Mar 28, 2022
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Scrolling social media, reading websites, listening to podcasts, watching news. With so many options, it's never been easier to follow American politics, but at what cost?
Jan 14, 2022
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In a first-of-its-kind study comparing hundreds of millions of social media posts about online health topics, a team of researchers found that posts about COVID-19 were less likely to contain misinformation than posts about ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Consuming traditional forms of media—including books, music and television—has little effect on short-term adult well-being, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.
Jan 6, 2022
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