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Social Media Scatters Your Brain, and Then You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need

Posted on April 30, 2023

Social media can be mentally draining. And when mentally drained, you are more likely to be influenced by a high number of likes on posts – even to the point of clicking on ads for products you don’t need or want – according to our recent experiments on how social media affects behavior.

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