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Ian Anderson, Researcher in Neuroscience: “Social Media Addiction Is a Myth”

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CALIFORNIA, USA.- For years, the dominant story has been clear: social networks are making us addicted, almost at the same level as tobacco or gambling. Official reports, meetings and headlines have repeated that idea to become common sense. Now, Ian A. Anderson and Wendy Wood, researchers at the University of Southern California, have just published in Scientific Reports of Nature, a work that dares to go countercurrent: when we talk about soci…
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CALIFORNIA, USA.- For years, the dominant story has been clear: social networks are making us addicted, almost at the same level as tobacco or gambling. Official reports, meetings and headlines have repeated that idea to become common sense. Now, Ian A. Anderson and Wendy Wood, researchers at the University of Southern California, have just published in Scientific Reports of Nature, a work that dares to go countercurrent: when we talk about soci…

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Almomento.Mx broke the news in on Saturday, November 29, 2025.
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