74 - Johannes Eichstaedt: Is Social Media to Blame for Mental Illness?
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Social Media Use and Mental Health
I listened to this podcast episode on Instagram's influence on teenage girls, self-images. The way that algorithm works is just seem to worsen this body image issues among young girls. So I wonder if there's also this kind of interplay between people who use social media and people who are more likely to develop certain mental health units. Is that a kind of an area of research that you have a look at? And I wonder how that potentially varies platform by platform since I feel like each social media platform we're using all come with a different, slightly different flavor and slightly different way of regulating a content. No, that's not exactly my line of work, but I'm sort of loosely
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