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"Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not

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"Doomscrolling" through just a few minutes of COVID-related news brings you down, but reading about COVID-related kind acts does not 

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Article Title: Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not

Author Countries: UK, Canada

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. 
 

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257728

 


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