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Body Satisfaction and Media Influences
This article is authored by Nancy Gomez and Arielle Radin and is a part of the 2018 pre-graduate spotlight week spotlight week. When you look in the mirror, you often see the actual physical reflection of yourself, height, eye color, skin color – but the way you perceive how you look goes beyond the objective.…
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@B.F.SkinnyMan: Why B.F. Skinner Would Love Food Snapchats and Instagram Fitness Culture
Our brains haven’t evolved to reward us for eating healthy foods or exercising. Can we engineer our own positive feedback loops to promote these behaviors using social media?
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Parenting in the Digital Age: Q&A with Yalda Uhls
About this Q&A Interview We are proud to secure an exclusive interview with Yalda T. Uhls, MBA, PhD — a child psychologist researcher and leading expert in how media affects children. She is a former Psychology in Action president and our most prolific blogger. Yalda continues to research with UCLA while serving as as director of Creative Community Partnerships at Common Sense Media, a national non-profit.…
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Me, Myselfie, and I: The Psychological Impact of Social Media Activity
Recent research has documented how technology, and social networking sites in particular, have given rise to a growing obsession with impression management and self-presentation online. This raises an important question: Are our relationships with social media healthy?