Spending hours mindlessly scrolling or consuming content with harmful messages can clearly have a negative impact on mental ...

An extra hour in front of a screen increases the risk of myopia by 21 percent, as a South Korean-Irish team of scientists has now discovered. The effect of "screen time" is "dose-dependent".

Articles that framed screen time as harmful were far more likely ... that articles that combined sensationalist language (e.g., alarming phrasing) with scientific framing (e.g., talking about ...

Parents are more likely to read articles about the negative impacts of their children’s screen times than those that document a less consequential effect, NYU researchers found in a February study.

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of ...