Fewer ‘Likes’ Can Cause Emotional Distress
UT News September 22, 2020
Filed in: Technology
In this recent study in Child Development, co-author David Yeager and colleagues show that getting fewer 'likes' than others leads to increased feelings of rejection, especially for young people already feeling victimized IRL.
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