This Pew Research Center report looks at views of how social media has impacted democracy in 37 countries, as well as social media use by platform in each place. Pew Research Center does research to ...

The collective emotional stress of the COVID-19 pandemic may be reflected in how the human brain regulates fear and anxiety. A recent study published in Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine indicates that on ...

Social media is inherently negative—so how do we navigate witnessing online hate while trying to preserve our positivity?

It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that social media can trend toward the negative. But it might take one to figure out why. In a new paper in PNAS, professor of psychology Joshua Conrad ...

Social media surrounds our everyday lives. Many of us check our accounts hourly. Perhaps without even realizing it, though, social media is affecting our mental health in a negative way. For one, ...

The proliferation of social media and smartphones in recent years has contributed to a mental health crisis among our children and teenagers and altered the way they interact with our world. Teenagers ...