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Daily Mail (London) Children who are constantly on Instagram and Snapchat become ‘hypersensitive’ to criticism as adults, study suggests.
Daily Mail (London) Children who are constantly on Instagram and Snapchat become ‘hypersensitive’ to criticism as adults, study suggests.
CBS 17 (Raleigh, NC) Social media might be making children more sensitive to criticism, say researchers from the University of North Carolina.
WRAL (Raleigh, NC) A new study shows habitual checking of social media may impact young adolescents’ brain development.
U.S. News & World Report (HealthDay News) Social media‘s impact on young people is a hot topic, with most kids and teens wanting to do whatever their friends are doing and parents worrying about setting limits.
The New York Times Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear.
UNC News The study provides some of the first findings about social media’s possible consequences on the development of adolescent brains.
Published in Advances in Child Development and Behavior (2023) Authors: Flannery, J.S., Maza, M.T., Kilic, Z, & Telzer, E.H.
Published in Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (January 2023) Authors: Davis, M.M., Modi, H.H., Skymba, H.V., Finnegan, M., Haiger, K., Telzer, E.H., & Rudolph, K.D.
Carolina Alumni Review A $10 million gift from the Winston Family Foundation will fund a research center at UNC to examine the long-term effects of technology and social media use on teen social and emotional development.
Chapelboro.com (Chapel Hill, NC) UNC is creating a new research center to examine long-term effects of technology and social media on social and emotional development.