Is Your Smartphone Making You Sad?

Is Your Smartphone Making You Sad?
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A fascinating study appeared from Stanford University this time last year. It was the largest-ever study on the effects of social media on psychological moods. Researchers paid 35,000 heavy users of Facebook and a smaller group of Instagram users to stay off for six weeks. They attempted to measure mood before and after.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]