adolescent
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Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.
From Los Angeles Times
The plaintiff bar says media platforms are liable for adolescent ills.
They also point to studies that find an association between adolescent social-media use and mental illness.
Noetel led research published in Psychological Bulletin last year that reviewed more than 100 studies worldwide on the links between screens and the psychological and emotional problems suffered by children and adolescents.
From Barron's
In a study published in Science Advances on January 14, the researchers found that the adolescent brain does not simply eliminate connections.
From Science Daily
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