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Screen Time
Phone use reduction and social media restriction experiments — effects on mood, sleep, attention, and subjective wellbeing.
Evidence is mixed
Social media restriction studies consistently show improved mood and sleep (Hunt et al., 2018). Screen time reduction effects on cognition are more variable and depend heavily on what the time is replaced with. Dose-response relationships are non-linear — modest use is not clearly harmful.
Evidence base
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