...Alexandra Masciantonio; Neele Heiser; Anthony Cherbonnier Social media has transformed how people engage with the world around them. The positivity bias on social media, in particular, warrants in-depth investigation. This is particularly true as previous research has concentrated on one specific...

...Mustafa Maruf Cansızlar; Ekrem Sedat Şahin Parents’ sharing of personal information about their children and images such as photos and videos on social media is defined as ‘sharenting’. Research on sharenting thus far has focused on the content of parents’ online shares and their motivations...

...Stefan Stieger; Selina Volsa; Friedrich M. Götz; William Chopik The good and bad impacts of social media on individuals and societies remain poorly understood and highly debated. An often-discussed, yet little-studied worry about social media usage is that it may breed diminished social...

...Raunak M. Pillai; Lisa K. Fazio; Matt Williams Recent years have seen a growing interest among academics and the public in ways to curb the spread of misinformation on social media. A recent experiment demonstrated that explanation prompts—simply asking people to explain why they think information...

...Hannah Buie; Alyssa Croft; Amélie Bret We introduce the Social Media Sexist Content (SMSC) database, an open-access online stimulus set consisting of 382 social media content items and 221 comments related to the content. The content items include 90 sexist posts and 292 neutral posts. The comment...

...Jordan Zimmerman; Angelica De Rezende; Anna M. Wright; Kaitlin M. Lord; Sarah Brown-Schmidt; Ullrich Ecker Social media is a routine part of every-day life for millions of people worldwide. How does engaging with social media shape enduring memories for that experience? This question is important...

.... They also indicated the time they spent on active and passive social media use and their end-of-day wellbeing. Multilevel regressions indicated that more face-to-face interactions both within and outside of one’s household positively predicted wellbeing, while technology-mediated communication had less...

...Gordon Pennycook; Jabin Binnendyk; Christie Newton; David G. Rand; Matt Williams Coincident with the global rise in concern about the spread of misinformation on social media, there has been influx of behavioral research on so-called “fake news” (fabricated or false news headlines...

.../ . Open science meta-science relevance crisis Reddit social media reform As scientists, it can be easy to lock ourselves inside the “science bubble” and ignore how the general public perceives our work. While some researchers may see the importance of communicating findings to the public...

... on charitable donation, as measured by hypothetical indications of donation and real donation behavior. Overall, this work demonstrates that theoretically constrained, exploratory social media analyses can be used to generate viable hypotheses, but also that such approaches should be paired with rigorous...