CDMC Mission
Our mission is to study children, teens, and adults’ interaction with the newer forms of interactive digital media and to see how these interactions both affect and reflect offline lives, ecological conditions, and long-term development.
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Patricia M. Greenfield
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA
Director, CDMC@LA
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Yalda T. Uhls, Ph.D.
Associate Director, CDMC@LA
Assistant adjunct prof. at UCLA
Psychologists say overly connected children can’t read human emotion
How to limit children’s use of digital devices is a hot topic for many parents. Read more
Young people may be losing the ability to read emotions in our digital world
Children’s social skills may be declining as they have less time for face-to-face interaction due to their increased use of digital media, according to a UCLA psychology study. Read more
Children May Be Losing Their Ability To Read Emotions, But There’s A Fix
Sure, your child can read emoticons. But a provocative new study suggests that all that screen time is making it hard for children to interpret real-life emotions. It shows that the more kids use digital media, the more their social skills decline. Read more
Internet could kill kids’ emotion
A small study from the University of California Los Angeles psychology department concludes absorption in digital media could be a roadblock in children’s development of the ability to read emotions. Read more
Study: Use of Electronic Devices May Hinder Kids’ Ability to Read Others’ Emotions
A psychological study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles found that children may face declining social skills due to their increased use of digital media. Read more
Is Technology Ruining Our Ability to Read Emotions? Study Says Yes
We’ve all heard it before, “Kids don’t know grammar anymore because all they do is text,” or “Today’s generation misses everything going on around them because they’re staring at their phones.” Read more
How digital technology and TV can inhibit children socially
Removing smartphones and gadgets from children for just a few days immediately improves their social skills, a study has found.
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Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior is a scholarly journal dedicated to examining the use of computers from a psychological perspective. Read more
How Young Is Too Young for a Digital Presence?
Some parents are creating accounts for their babies on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other services, long before those children are able to add posts themselves. Read more
Five days at outdoor education camp without screens
A field experiment examined whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction while eliminating the use of screen-based media and communication tools improved nonverbal emotion–cue recognition in preteens. Read more