Relationships, Community, & Social Psychology

Is Social Media Reflecting Our Pathology or Adding to It?

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 stories about mental health. For many, this has been positive, perhaps even a lifesaving, as it ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Mental Health, Social Media, Social Psychology
Social Media Use is Related to Both Ill-Being and Well-Being

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) conducted a large study comparing users and non-users of Facebook on various mental health variables. While ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Depression, Media Psychology & Technology, Social Media, Social Psychology
Social Media and Self-Esteem

Social Media and Self-Esteem

A recent article published in Science Direct looked at the association between social media use and mental health among adolescents. The impact of social media on mental health is certainly not a ...
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/ / Developmental Psychology, Media Psychology & Technology, Positive Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, well-being
Study Looks at Why Single People Are Single

Study Looks at Why Single People Are Single

But why are you single?? It’s an annoying question, but recently psychology researchers took it to a new level: they asked that question to 648 people and asked those people to rate ...
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/ / Relationships, Sex, Social Psychology
The Advantages of Having Similar Friends

The Advantages of Having Similar Friends

Part of what defines a friendship is what that friendship is founded on. For people to be friends, something has to connect them, but the nature of that connection is different from ...
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/ / Friendships, Positive Psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology
Personality Influences People's Environmentally Friendly Behaviors

Personality Influences People’s Environmentally Friendly Behaviors

With a constant stream of news about coronavirus, it’s easy to overlook the disconcerting news that continues to come out regularly about another global crisis: climate change. Most recently, a study was ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, Environment, Personality, Social Psychology
COVID-19 Might Be Changing People's Intentions of Becoming Parents

COVID-19 Might Be Changing People’s Intentions of Becoming Parents

The new way of life brought about by the current pandemic has many people rethinking their long-term plans, and that may include reevaluating their desire to have children. According to a new ...
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/ / Behavioral Psychology, COVID, Health Psychology, Parenting, Social Psychology
Envy Might Drive Some of Social Media's Mental Health Effects

Envy Might Drive Some of Social Media’s Mental Health Effects

Social media has facilitated both new ways of connecting with others and new ways of tallying how our lives stack up against theirs. In the twenty-first century, keeping up with the Joneses ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Envy, Relationships, Social Media, Social Psychology
The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

The Tweets That Go With a Quarter-Life Crisis

From getting married to buying homes, millennials are accused of doing everything later. But that’s not true when it comes to having life crises. As the rise of the term "quarter-life" crisis ...
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/ / Anxiety, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, Teens, Tweets, Young Adults
A Game to Measure Couples' Trust

A Game to Measure Couples’ Trust

Can you measure trust in romantic relationships? A team of researchers in Germany thinks so, and they’ve put forward an activity called the Trust Game for Couples that’s intended to do exactly ...
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/ / Couples, Relationships, Social Psychology