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Social Media and Well-Being: Pitfalls, Progress, and Next Steps

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Accumulating evidence indicates that social media can enhance or diminish well-being depending on how people use them, and future research is needed to model these complexities using stronger methods to advance knowledge in this domain.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2021-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 115 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media & Domain (software engineering).

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Exploring social media adoption by nurses for nursing practice in rural Volta, Ghana

TL;DR: In this paper , the purpose of the study was to inquire into social media adoption by nurses for nursing practice, and the purpose was to investigate the adoption of social media by nurses.
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A balanced digital diet for under 5s: A commentary on Orben (2021)

TL;DR: In this article , the authors consider the digital diet with a focus on young children under 5 and argue that balance needs to be considered differently for young children, and their families, compared to older children and adolescents.
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Understanding the relations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and emerging adults’ mental health during a COVID-19 imposed lockdown

TL;DR: In this paper , a cross-sectional study among 415 emerging adults examined the interrelations between exposure to the positive self-portrayals of others on social media and mental health during an intense COVID-19 lockdown period.
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ScreenLife Capture: An open-source and user-friendly framework for collecting screenomes from Android smartphones

TL;DR: In this paper , a user-friendly and open-source software, called ScreenLife Capture, is introduced to collect screenomes from smartphones, which provides detailed objective records of individuals' interaction with screen devices over time.
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Ice-Breaking Technology: Robots and Computers Can Foster Meaningful Connections between Strangers through In-Person Conversations

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the effectiveness of a humanoid robot, a computer screen, and a poster at stimulating meaningful, face-to-face conversations between two strangers by posing progressively deeper questions.
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Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

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What are the potential benefits and risks of social media for well-being?

The paper discusses that social media can both enhance and diminish well-being depending on how people use them, but does not explicitly mention the potential benefits and risks of social media for well-being.

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The paper states that social media can have small negative effects on well-being, but also acknowledges that the impact depends on how people use social media.

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