Removing smartphones and gadgets from children for just a few days immediately improves their social skills, a study has found.
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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
Young people feel socially supported by having large networks of on-line friends they may never see. Read more
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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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