We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies

In this article, we examine Australia's landmark decision to ban social media access for children under the age of 16, set to take effect in December 2025. While the legislation aims to protect young...

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£1.5 million investment into the impacts of loneliness on the brains of young people.

Nature Reviews Psychology - The term ‘social connection’ is operationalized differently across disparate strands of research. In this Review, Baek et al. highlight four distinct uses of...

In this Perspective, the authors review current interventions on social media use among adolescents and propose a new theoretical model based on self-determination theory to guide the effective design...

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

One of the first studies in this area to use clinical-level diagnoses reveals a range of differences between young people with and without mental health

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of