Associate professor of advertising at UF. Interim director, UF STEM Translational Communication Center. Co-editor at Media Psychology. he/him/his
Jan 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
We developed and validated a doomscrolling scale. New article at Technology, Mind, & Behavior. @bhaktisharma4, @Susanna36896130, and I wanted to see if we could differentiate doomscrolling from related concepts, and design a reliable and valid self-report measure. (1/8)
Our three-study registered report does just that. We conceptualized doomscrolling as “habitual, immersive scanning for timely negative information on social media newsfeeds.” (2/8)