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I've never heard of reason.com, but it links to this PNAS article: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022819118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e20228191
by ryan-duve 5y ago
I've never heard of reason.com, but it links to this PNAS article: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022819118 https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2022819118
Two paragraphs at the beginning stand out to me:
> Through an experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina where users refrained from Facebook usage during 1 wk of heightened identity salience, we find that—counter expectations—people who deactivated their accounts reported lower outgroup regard than the group that remained active, but this effect was likely conditional on the level of ethnic heterogeneity of respondents’ residence.
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> Here, we find that Facebook deactivation leads to suggestive improvements in subjective wellbeing and a decrease in knowledge of current events...
- amadeuspagel 5y ago>> Here, we find that Facebook deactivation leads to suggestive improvements in subjective wellbeing and a decrease in knowledge of current events... Interesting. Maybe these aren't separate effects, maybe the decreased knowledge of current events is what leads to the improvement in wellbeing.