Why? One major factor is media coverage, which makes ‘addiction’ the commonly used phrase to describe heavy or highly frequent use. Our media analysis showed that ‘social media addiction’ was used almost 500 times more than the amount that a more neutral phrase, ‘social media habit’, was...

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨

S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.

S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.

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Excited to present some new research I’ve been working on at #NCA2025 tomorrow! We are in the early Comm and Social Cognition session starting at 8:15AM!

Thanks to Caltech Magazine for the #SoCaltech feature, which touches on my forthcoming research on social media habits and addiction as well as my past in social media marketing 🥳

Had a wonderful start to #ICA25 today at the @icamobile.bsky.social precon! Thanks to @joebayer.bsky.social @larawolfers.bsky.social and @aliciagilbert.bsky.social for collaborating on a flash talk and @danilkowa.bsky.social for helping co-lead-organize a wonderful workshop on #neurodiversity ✨✨