Time for a Psychologically Smart Technology
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It is time for digital technology to live up to its true potential and start using data to make our lives better by supporting…
It is time for digital technology to live up to its true potential and start using data to make our lives better by supporting…
What is the impact of social media usage on the mental health of young people? This is a pressing question for researchers, who…
Bien plus que d’être utile pour communiquer, la voix permettrait de se lier et de se rapprocher des autres. Médias sociaux…
Social scientists at Stanford say that how you interact with your computer or phone might be more important than how much time…
(This article was first published in the The American Interest on July 18, 2019.) Today’s emergent socialism is less an attack…
The phrase can’t remotely capture our ever-shifting digital experience, social scientists say. Say hello to the “screenome.”
Everyone’s worried about smartphones. Headlines like “Have smartphones destroyed a generation?” and “Smartphone addiction could…
As psychologist Chris Willard often says, our phones can be our greatest enemy or greatest friend. While they can save us time…
L’hyperconnexion des réseaux sociaux qui promet de rapprocher pourrait au contraire favoriser le sentiment de solitude, néanmoins…
We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of…
Inadvertently, in the wake of recent Facebook data harvesting scandals, Elon Musk and Brian Acton spurring on Facebook users to …
Increases in depression and suicide appeared among teens in 2012 – the same time smartphone ownership became the normAround 2012…
As a physician of internal medicine, I’m always trying to provide my patients with the best advice to help them live their best…
Meanwhile, 74 percent of Facebook users visit the site or app at least once a day, according to PEW Research.
Our research suggests that more than one hour online a day could significantly reduce teens’ happiness. And it may not just be…
Notebook 7 SpinYour daily selection of the hottest trending tech news! According to BBC…
Studies and Facebook creators are seeing social media in a much more negative light. Read More
Tegenwoordig hebben we bijna allemaal een smartphone en we besteden er behoorlijk veel tijd aan. Welke invloed heeft dit op ons…
Commentary: You can now follow hashtags on Instagram like they were people. But don't do it, I implore you. (You'll thank me…
Researchers look at the impact smartphone use and technology is having on teen mental health.
A new paper suggests that an increase in mobile phone ownership could have led to a rise in mental health problems in young…
Why I think it is important to study attention in school children
Comedian Bill Maher draws a disturbing parallel between social media and cigarettes. The post Technology as the New Tobacco…
New research is putting the first generation of kids to grow up with the smartphone into sharp relief.
The technology we’ve adopted the fastest was supposed to bring us closer together. Sometime around 2011 or 2012, it suddenly…
Nothing like Instagram. cliplab.pro/ShutterstockLetting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and…
If Facebook and I had a relationship status last year, it would have been, “It’s complicated.” The social media platform, with…
Initially, most of us thought that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media applications would help to bring people…
New research finds a link between use of the social network and lower levels of well-being.Continue reading on Pacific Standard …
When the WildlifeSNPits team first started discussing whether to participate in the #365scienceselfies challenge, I really didn’t…
Depression sucks. It’s terribly painful, exhausting, numbing and boring all at once. During a major depressive episode earlier…
A remarkable paper claims that staying off Facebook for a week could make you happier: The Facebook Experiment, by Morten…
While the social media company cooperated with the research, it tracks other findings that social ties are linked to longevity.
Mark Fiore/KQED Clearly, researchers love Facebook, even if some of the rest of us are ambivalent. A…
There’s a reason we’re like this… Why is it so hard to love ourselves? If you’re like me, over the years you’ve tried to figure…
The world is a festering stew, everything's getting worse, and nothing matters as we march into the cold embrace of the void.
Business is booming for life coaches—but what exactly do they do?
With over a billion users, Facebook is changing the social life of our species. Cultural commentators ponder the effects. Is it…
There are more than 500 million people interacting with Facebook from countries all over the world every single day, and that…
We all face so many big decisions in life, but maybe recent scientific research can help us make better choicesShould you get a…
Facebook. People either love it or hate it. But one thing we can all agree on is that it sucks up a lot of time for a lot of…
For better or worse, social media has taken the world hostage. Many people are glued to their Facebook pages, Twitter feeds…
Those great photos from your high school girlfriend's recent vacation in the Caribbean? A study says they're probably making…
With over a billion users, Facebook is changing the social life of our species. Cultural commentators ponder the effects. Is it…
According to scientific studies, your wellbeing, your opinions and even your weight are shaped by your social networks. Now…
The social network doubles down on the results of its controversial — and flawed — study. AP Photo/Jeff…
Whether we like it or not, humans can be pretty vain sometimes. But at least it cheers us up.
Your cousin is picking blueberries with her 3-year-old twins. Your college classmate got married at an 18th century inn. And…
We have submitted a new paper. It describes how we are planning to validate the performance of homogenization methods that…
A decade after the social network’s launch, Nicholas Tufnell has given up on the site, explaining that “there’s something about…
Happy Birthday, Facebook!Over the past ten years, Facebook has added a new dimension to the social lives of over a billion…
Dumb Little Man:Facebookは楽しいかもしれませんが、「人生における最高の体験」ってほどでもなければ、それに近いものでもないはず。次の質問で、それを証明することができます。 「こ...
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:Efficacy…
Nearly 65 years ago, before the first image of Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan was posted to Tumblr and Diet Coke received its…
The Internet is an endless buffet of cat videos, bingeable TV, and celebrity Instagrams. And it may also be slowly driving you…
Looking at too many filtered images of food can make it less enjoyable to eat, new research from Brigham Young University claims.
Dans le New Yorker, la psychologue Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova), l’auteure du bestseller Mastermind, comment penser comme…
Dans le New Yorker, la psychologue Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova), l’auteure du bestseller Mastermind, comment penser comme…
The more people used Facebook at one time point, the worse they felt the next time we text-messaged them; the more they used…
What kinds of research did people talk about in August? This time, the papers were all about being human, and the things in our…
[WARNING: light philosophical content ahead] I’m a newcomer to the world of Facebook, having joined…
Studies of elderly people and social isolation concluded that those without adequate social interaction were twice as likely to…
Over the winter I moved from New York City to Portland, Ore. The reasons for my move were purely logical. New York was…
Back in 2009, I wrote a post about the death of the television schedule. In the post, I discussed shelf life versus…
Well, Facebook is officially the bad habit of internetting—that fixation you can't seem to kick, feel really guilty about, but…
How Facebook use influences subjective well-being over time. Online social networks are rapidly changing the way human beings…
U. MICHIGAN (US) — The more young adults used Facebook over a two-week study period, the greater the dip in their life…
We all know that the mainstream media loves a good, link-baiting headline, and that they are prone to simplification and…