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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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Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined two important cognitive and emotional processes (i.e., boredom proneness and distress intolerance) through which depression and social anxiety may contribute to problematic TikTok use.
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Social media wellbeing: Perceived wellbeing amidst social media use in Norway

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored how university students in Norway perceive their wellbeing in respect to their social media usage, and how it impacts their subjective sense of wellbeing, by drawing from a set of 15 in-depth interviews.
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The relationship of children's smartphone use with well-being and school achievement

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the relationship between some aspects of children's smartphone use (time and motives for smartphone use), indicators of well-being (life satisfaction, positive and negative affect), and school achievement.
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Positive AI: Key Challenges for Designing Wellbeing-aligned Artificial Intelligence

W. Maden, +2 more
- 12 Apr 2023 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate a total of twelve challenges that can be categorized as related to a lack of knowledge (how to contextualize, operationalize, optimize, and design AI for wellbeing), and lack of motivation (designing AI for wellness is seen as risky and unrewarding).
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Information Processing and Memory in Learning

TL;DR: In this article , the success of learning is strongly influenced by information processing mechanisms and working memory, the characteristics of the initial information will affect the sensory response which is continued by storage in sensory memory.
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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

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