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"Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not

10.13.21 | PLOS

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"Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not

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Article Title: Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not

Author Countries: UK, Canada

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257728

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0257728

Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not

13-Oct-2021

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2021, October 13). "Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DDXRO1/doomscrolling-through-just-a-few-minutes-of-covid-related-news-brings-you-down-but-reading-about-covid-related-kind-acts-does-not.html
MLA:
""Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not." Brightsurf News, Oct. 13 2021, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DDXRO1/doomscrolling-through-just-a-few-minutes-of-covid-related-news-brings-you-down-but-reading-about-covid-related-kind-acts-does-not.html.