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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight five important contextual factors that should be considered when studying the associations between the frequency of video gaming and well-being and suggest that unless the social context (who), type (what), motivation (why), time and day (when), and amount (how much) of video game activities are adequately considered, examinations of well-learning outcomes in relation to video gaming will remain incomplete.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the buffering role of self-esteem in the context of daily stressors on affective reactivity and found that trait selfesteem did not moderate the relationship between daily stressor exposure and daily affect.

TL;DR: The authors conducted two forecasting tournaments to test the accuracy of predictions of societal change in domains commonly studied in the social sciences: ideological preferences, political polarization, life satisfaction, sentiment on social media, and gender-career and racial bias.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between people's daily perceived pressure to be busy and their daily emotional wellbeing and found that social pressure to feel busy is generally related to poorer daily emotional well-being.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a single 15min session of mindful attention to breathing compared to a 15-min sessions of mind-wandering exercise in a within-subjects experimental design (Study 1; N = 82) and a between-subject- experimental design(Study 2; n = 424) were examined.