Okay, that's weird.
, but a new study suggests that it may impact the developing brains of adolescents in profound ways as well., in one of the first studies of its kind, that habitually checking social feeds may change the ways early adolescents process social rewards and punishments — changes concrete enough that they can be seen as distinct and divergent neural pathways in brain scans.
Initially, the subjects who reported high social media usage — those who checked Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat more than 15 times a day — seemed to show less sensitivity towards social rewards,positive verbal and nonverbal feedback such smiles, words of praise, and acquisition of a good reputation. The higher-usage subjects also seemed less sensitive towards social punishment as well.
"We can’t make causal claims that social media is changing the brain," Eva Telzer, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience who co-authored the paper, told the paper.
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