Posting to social media linked to shorter tempers

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US researchers suggest that all of that scrolling and posting we are doing might end with us being more irritable, after surveying over 40,000 people about their social media habits and the potential effect it has on our emotions. Their findings showed people who frequently used social media, especially those who posted frequently, had significantly higher scored on an irritability test than their social media-free or infrequent peers. This kind of study cannot prove that your hours of doomscrolling is directly making you Tik'd off, but in light of known associations of irritability and mental health issues, maybe we should put down our phones just a little more.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Funder: The survey was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Drs Ognyanova, Lazer, Druckman, Baum, and Santillana) and the National Institute of Health (Drs Perlis and Lazer).

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