Ian Axel Anderson, PhD

Will only be on this site sporadically to share research papers.

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Behavioral Scientist, studying tech habits @Caltech he/they 🏳️‍🌈.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

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"True clinical addiction means more than overuse," @aanixel and @ProfWendyWood write. https://t.co/wnx904VghQ

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

@jayvanbavel Curious also if the snowball-style sampling procedure had an impact here (baseline survey might be informative?), as I would guess people who were having issues with social media use might be more likely to join the study (though maybe also those who enjoy it?).

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Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on 1,204 US adults published in @SciReports. https://t.co/Svzy8tpOAo

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

Thanks for covering my research!!

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New research published in the journal Scientific Reports shows that Instagram users overestimate their addiction to social media.⁠
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Sky's @MickeyCarroll0 breaks down the research and what it all means ⁠

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

Thanks for covering our new study @physorg_com

Instagram users overestimate their social media addiction, study suggests https://t.co/vLM1nLocH8

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

🔑 For platforms: give users more tools to control and manage use, preferably based on the same strategies that are already being used to drive habitual, highly frequent use of platforms.

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

Are you really "addicted" to social media?

Good news: probably not, at least according to my and @ProfWendyWood's new paper, available open-access from @SciReports!

Thread below... 🧵

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

🔑 For scientists, consider using a more diverse array of measures for frequent social media use, including measures of habit, addiction, frequency, and collecting actual log data.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of
ingroup members

An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts find that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online https://t.co/VGm2qZaXrW

[Ian Axel Anderson, PhD @aanixel]

@caitlinsgilbert @jeremybmerrill @ccemorse Hey Caitlin! This is an awesome project!! Is there any chance that academic researchers like me could access fully anonymized data? My dissertation (https://t.co/p8Y4YwMEWj) looked at Twitter/X scrolling and compared habitual & non-habitual scrollers, so I'm super interested.