Jan. 2026 Ljubiša Bojić , Velibor Ilić , Veljko Prodanović   Vuk Vuković   Digital platforms now act as the primary environments for public discourse, where recommender systems shape visibility, emotion, and interpretation. This study introduces the Recommender Systems LLMs Playground (RecSysLLMsP), a simulation framework designed to examine how algorithmic personalization interacts with language generation to influence engagement and polarization. The research provides a rep

Dec. 2025 Amelia C Couture Bue ,  Dar Meshi Women who use highly visual social media platforms (e.g., Instagram) frequently experience body dissatisfaction and negative affect, but evidence of effective interventions is limited. Self-affirmation interventions, which reinforce a positive self-image prior to a threat, provide a promising but understudied solution to body image disturbance following social media use. In this experiment, 250 college-aged women from the U.S. were

Dec. 2025 Elombe Calvert, MBBS ; Maddalena Cipriani, BS ; Bridget Dwyer, BS Victoria Lisowski, BS ; Jane Mikkelson, BA ; Kelly Chen, MS ; Matthew Flathers, BA ; Christine Hau, MS ; Winna Xia, MS ; Juan Castillo, MA ; Alex Dhima, BS ; Sean Ryan, MS ; John Torous, MD, MBI Key Points Question   Is reducing social media use associated with behavior and mental health outcomes among young adults? Findings   In this cohort study of 373 participants, problematic use of social media w

Nov. 2025 Shirin Abdallah Alimour Mohammad Alrabeei The accelerating integration of digital technologies with human experience has precipitated profound cognitive, emotional, and behavioral transformations, giving rise to emergent psychopathologies that remain insufficiently addressed by traditional diagnostic taxonomies. This study introduces a novel reconceptualization of mental health in the digital era, delineating four original diagnostic categories: Cognitive Fragmentat

Nov. 2025 Qasim Bin Saeed YoungJin Cha   The rising prevalence of mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder underscores the urgent need for effective tools to enable early detection and intervention. Social media platforms like Reddit offer a rich source of user-generated content that reflects emotional and behavioral patterns, making them valuable for mental health analysis. However, many existing social media–based approaches focus solely on

Nov. 2025 Abstract Background: Social media (SM) platforms have become increasingly prevalent in adolescents' lives, and concerns have arisen regarding their potential contribution to depression. This study examined whether excessive SM use contributes to rising adolescent depression rates and evaluated potential mitigation strategies. Methods and findings: We developed an individual-based microsimulation model of 18.6 million French adolescents born 1990-2012, tracking depre

Oct. 2025 Federica Angelini Gianluca Gini Introduction: Digital stress, resulting from expectations of online availability, can increase...

Oct. 2025 Eun Jung Choi, Ella Christiaans, Emma G. Duerden Highlights Vulnerable adolescents had much higher anxiety and...

Sept. 2025 Md Kamrul Hasan In today’s world, social media and constant connectivity are central to daily life. Recent data suggest that...

March 2017 Qinghua He , Ofir Turel , Antoine Bechara   This study relies on knowledge regarding the neuroplasticity of dual-system...

Sept. 2025 Jean Twenge, PhD, award-winning professor of psychology and author of the “lavishly informative” (The New York Times)...

Aug. 2025 Screen time is not a monolithic concept; it is heavily stratified by age, generation, and socio-economic status. Generational...

Sept. 2025 Dinesh Deckker 1 , Subhashini Sumanasekara 2 1 Wrexham University, United Kingdom 2 University of Gloucestershire, United...

Sept. 2025 This study examines the influence of visual aesthetics on Instagram in shaping social identity and user behavior, with a focus...

Aug. 2025 Dar Meshi , Maria D. Molina Social media use is ubiquitous in our modern society, and some individuals display excessive,...

Aug. 2025 Luca Braghieri Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences Ro'ee Levy Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of...

Aug. 26, 2025 Social media has significantly reshaped interpersonal communication, fostering connectivity while also enabling the...

Aug. 26, 2025 The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within social media platforms has fundamentally transformed the way...

Aug. 23. 2025 Excessive use of short-video platforms not only impairs decision-making processes but also predisposes individuals to...

Aug. 21, 2025 Introduction: With the boom in social media, many people spend a lot of time on these platforms. Among them, some...