Près de 96 % utilisent Internet à des fins personnelles, et 89 % sont actifs sur les réseaux sociaux.

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Do phone restrictions improve teens' mental health? 📱 No, according to this cross-sectional study: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Of 30 schools in the UK, attending those that restrict phone use was not associated with better mental health.

TikTok is still here. What can parents do? Avoiding social media altogether is not going to help protect young people. Our op-ed in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social: www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-e... #TikTok #PsychSciSky

My public health students @mcgill.ca were lucky to meet @stephanienolen.bsky.social today, and learn about how journalists cover global and public health and why journalism matters, now more than ever Merci beaucoup, Stephanie 🙏🏽

Interesting new pub @collabrapsychology.bsky.social on how pre-registration have impacts on theory development by encouraging scientists to think more deeply earlier on in a project. Not a meta-scientist but, I think this tracks on my personal experience. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

Structural disadvantage and social isolation disproportionately affect people with mental health problems and may erode trust in institutions. Our new preprint highlights the importance of addressing these factors to foster a more trusting society: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt. newrepublic.com/article/1903...

Dans @lapresse.ca : @mashdash.bsky.social strikes again! ⬆️↗️ Aux Halles de la gare : « Au total, il a donc installé sept grands panneaux indiquant clairement où aller pour prendre un train, le métro, un autobus et même pour se rendre à des rues à proximité » #remmtl #transportcollectif #Wayfinding

Par ici le privé: Clic Santé propose une majorité de rendez-vous dans des cliniques privées, pour des services payants, montre une analyse de La Presse. Une enquête de Charles-Éric Blais-Poulin et @jeanhuguesroy.bsky.social lp.ca/4wlcEd via @lapresse.ca

Structural disadvantage and social isolation disproportionately affect people with mental health problems and may erode trust in institutions. Our new preprint highlights the importance of addressing these factors to foster a more trusting society: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Some recent work, for the Bluesky crowd, A review of my new book, The Avatar Faculty doi.org/10.1093/jaar...

What is the effect of reducing social media use or abstaining from it entirely? Many experimental studies have examined this question but found mixed results. I recommend this preprint that identifies methodological issues in current research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Vous avez entre 16 et 25 ans, jouez aux jeux vidéo, et résidez au Québec? Nous recherchons des participant.e.s pour compléter un questionnaire anonyme en ligne. Une carte cadeau est offerte pour toute participation. Pour en savoir plus: portal.rimuhc.ca/cim/redcap/s...

(1/2) 🎇ANNONCE!🎇 L’édition 2025 du colloque annuel de l’ACÉJ/CGSA sera un événement hybride co-organisé par le TAG Lab à l’Université Concordia à Montréal, Québec, du 7 au 10 juin. Le thème cette année est « Arrêts ». La date limite de soumission est le vendredi 13 décembre 2024 à 23h59 HNE

New preprint on fan cultures in mental health care 📺 osf.io/4b3md Taking the furry fandom as a case study, we discuss how identity, technology, stigma, and community interface with fan culture and mental health — and how clinicians can explore these aspects of a person’s background.

New preprint on fan cultures in mental health care 📺 osf.io/4b3md Taking the furry fandom as a case study, we discuss how identity, technology, stigma, and community interface with fan culture and mental health — and how clinicians can explore these aspects of a person’s background.

Our paper on media use and paranoia is now published: doi.org/10.2196/59198 We found that social media use was associated with subsequently lower paranoia in a sample of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. #PsychSciSky

New preprint by @bsiepe.bsky.social & our WARN-D lab. We collected information on sleep, tiredness & stress with both EMA and sensor data, and try to find out to which degree these are associated contemporaneously in a large dataset (n~800) with many timepoints (t~360). Brief 🧵

Hello Blue Skyers "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities" is currently available for pre-order! My contribution is in spectacular company, as you'll see. The book has been skillfully edited by @gabrielh.bsky.social, Anouk Lang, and @sjappleford.bsky.social Thanks for the shares!

"Although the reasons for the recent rise in MH problems among youth in the US is undoubtedly multifactorial, I believe that the crisis among parents that has unfolded over the past 2 decades is the #1 contributor..." #mentalhealth #digitalwellbeing craigsewall.substack.com/p/the-kids-p...

Could loneliness lead to conspiracy beliefs? Our new study published in Nature Communications reveals that those experiencing loneliness in adolescence and who remain lonely into adulthood are more likely to endorse conspiracist worldviews. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is adolescent media use associated with psychotic experiences (PEs)? 🎮 Our new paper does not provide evidence that media use is an independent risk factor for PEs. Instead, media use & PEs seem to be (modestly) associated through shared risk factors. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"And rather than looking through the lens of our own experience as adults, we should center the experience of children and ask them what would make them happier." www.wired.com/story/pete-e...

"The Neurodiversity Concept Was Developed Collectively: An Overdue Correction on the Origins of Neurodiversity Theory." The concept of #neurodiversity came from collective #autistic creativity, not from one person. Let's set the record straight. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What is the association between social media use and paranoia? 📱 We examined this question in a sample of 409 people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

What is the association between social media use and paranoia? 📱 We examined this question in a sample of 409 people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Studies showing that reducing screen time improves well-being are often widely cited. However, they suffer from a number of limitations, including lack of real-world feasibility.

You are not addicted to your phone.

Great news!

Very happy and proud to have worked on this with such great colleagues @nballou.bsky.social @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Thomas Hakman and Kristoffer Magnusson ⭐ The main result of this piece is a robust uplift in player mood in the first half hour of video game play. github.com/digital-well...

How do we measure experiences of loneliness in daily life? A thread for clinical psychologists, relationship scientists, EMA nerds, and measurement geeks 🧵👇 Preregistration, data, analysis scripts, and materials at osf.io/cwgme/. #psychscisky #rstats #statssky

Restating a prediction I made on twitter that university rankings will be a thing of the past 10 years from now, and we'll look back on the university heads that first led us away from them with a great respect and appreciation....1/