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SUMMARY:The Mechanisms Linking Social Media Use to Mental Health - Dr Amy 
 Orben\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20221124T123000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Adolescent mental health has declined substantiall
 y in the last decade (Sadler et. al\, 2018)\, stretching health services a
 nd making the area a medical research priority. Concurrently\, widespread 
 digital innovation has radically altered child and adolescent behaviour (9
 1% of 12-15 year-olds now own a smartphone). This has spurred pervasive co
 ncern that digitalisation and social media use might be decreasing adolesc
 ent mental health and well-being. Previous research has addressed these co
 ncerns by quantifying the relationship between social media use and adoles
 cent mental health and well-being in large-scale samples\, finding that th
 e links are negative and bidirectional but very small in size when average
 d across a whole population (Orben and Przybylski 2019\, Nature Human Beha
 viour). This talk will focus on a recent piece of work which found evidenc
 e of developmental windows of sensitivity to the negative impact of social
  media use\, which occur earlier in adolescence for girls in comparison to
  boys (Orben et al. 2022\,Nature Communications). This finding raises a tr
 anslationally promising possibility that pubertal and/or neurocognitive de
 velopments exacerbate the impact of social media use on mental health.\n\n
 *Biograph:* Dr Amy Orben is a Programme Leader Track Scientist at the MRC 
 Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, University of Cambridge\, and a Colleg
 e Research Fellow at Emmanuel College. She leads a research group investig
 ating the links between digital technology use\, mental health and cogniti
 on in adolescence. Alongside her research\, Dr Orben campaigns for the ado
 ption of more transparent and open scientific practices. Before joining th
 e University of Cambridge\, Dr Orben completed a DPhil in Experimental Psy
 chology at the University of Oxford\, for which she was awarded the Britis
 h Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Re
 search\, and an MA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. For
  more information on Dr Orben\, please visit: https://www.amyorben.com/
LOCATION:Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@me
 dschl.cam.ac.uk) 
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