FOCUS on MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Media Literacy and Modern Technology
Media Psychology Technology, including social and other forms of media, is often considered neutral - its ...
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Doomscrolling: The Ultimate Negative Flow State and Four Ways to Counter It
First, A Little Psychology I've written before about social media use and how it can be ...
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Is Social Media Reflecting Our Pathology or Adding to It?
Social Media and Mental Health Social media has become an open forum for discussing and sharing ...
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Social Media Use is Related to Both Ill-Being and Well-Being
Social media use and mental health seems to have a love/hate relationship. Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) ...
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NEED A LITTLE HAPPINESS AND JOY?
Social Media and Self-Esteem
A recent article published in Science Direct looked at the association between social media use and ...
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Being a Perfectionist Doesn’t Have to be a Negative
Being a perfectionist gets a bad rap. It is associated with negative outcomes, anxiety and stress ...
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Stoic Philosophers – The First Cognitive Behavioral Therapists
When we think of philosophers, names like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle often come to mind. For ...
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Spotlight on Self-Care
Self-care is the process of reducing stress and ill-being and improving health and well-being. It is ...
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICS
Attitudes to Inequality May Have Genetic Underpinning
It’s clear that we live in an unequal society, with some groups of people having more ...
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What’s the Role of Politics in Therapy?
Therapy is a place where anything can come up. The old adage about discussing politics and ...
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People Probably Agree With You Less Than You Think
If there’s one thing people never lack, it’s biases in how we think. One of these ...
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People Care More About Climate Change After Experiencing a Hurricane
Climate change is an interesting psychological case study. It’s a big, scientifically unambiguous problem, but we’re ...
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