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New Research Links Excessive Screen Time and Suicide for Teenage girls

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In the most sobering study on teens and screen time yet, researchers have found teenage girls who spend large amounts of time on computers and mobile devices were more likely to experience depression and attempt suicide.   The study used data from two nationally representative surveys that followed adolescents between the ages of thirteen and […]

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Here’s why your kids shouldn’t watch TV before bed

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A new report in the academic journal Pediatrics confirms what we already suspected– kids shouldn’t be on electronic devices before bed.   The researchers, a team from the University of Colorado, analysed all past literature on electronics, kids, teens, and sleep. They concluded screen use in the hour before bedtime was, in almost all studies, associated with

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Study links anxiety, social media use in young adults

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A new study has demonstrated an association between anxiety and social media use for young adults.   The researchers, from the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, surveyed 563 young adults, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two years. Each participant answered questions about his or her anxiety symptoms (if any) and

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Research links media multitasking to distractibility

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Do you scroll Facebook while watching television? Or listen to music while typing a research paper? Play a game on your smartphone as you listen to an audiobook? According to a new study, you may be hurting your memory and attention span.   Media multitasking– consuming more than one source of media at a time–

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Take a break from social media, study urges

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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen say we’d all be better off if we quit Facebook.   The study, published on the Happiness Research Institute’s website, followed over a thousand people. These individuals were surveyed about their social media use and well-being– a social science term for life satisfaction and mood. *Almost all (94%) of

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Unplugging may improve social skills, study suggests

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A recent study suggests taking some tech-free time may improve tweens’ ability to recognize emotional cues from others.   The study, published in the academic journal “Computers in Human Behavior,” tested two classes of sixth graders (aged 11, 12, and 13 years old) on their ability to recognize nonverbal emotional cues. This was done by asking

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Smartphones “exacerbate the difficulties of growing up,” Melinda Gates writes in Washington Post editorial

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Melinda Gates helped invent Microsoft Publisher and Expedia. You’d think she would be well prepared to help her kids navigate technology.   Bill and Melinda Gates are undoubtedly wonderful parents. But, according the Washington Post editorial Melinda penned titled, “I spent my career in technology, I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids,” she

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