ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

For Whom and When Is Social-Network Usage Associated with Anxiety? the Role of Filtering Irrelevant Facebook Information from Accessing Working Memory

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Neuroscience

  • Nurit Sternberg
    Tel Aviv University
  • Roy Luria
    Tel Aviv University
  • Brian Vickers
    University of Michigan
  • Ethan Kross
    University of Michigan
  • Gal Sheppes
    Tel Aviv University

Abstract

Is Facebook usage bad for mental-health? Existing studies provide mixed results. Utilizing state of the art neuroscience, experience-sampling and behavioral methodologies we explored for whom and when the ability to filter social-network information from accessing working memory is an underlying moderator in the relationship between online social-network usage and anxiety.

Cognitive Neuroscience

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