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Many parents think that drinking at home is a safe way to teach teenagers about alcohol, but research suggests this is not true.
Social media is ablaze with reports of kids going wild at screenings of A Minecraft Movie. It’s not antisocial: it’s communal.
Policymakers are focusing on restricting teens’ access to social media, but this approach risks cutting them off from its benefits. Making the platforms safer offers an alternative path.
For many teens, the pressure to project a perfect persona feels necessary to fit in and gain approval from their peers. However, the effort to appear perfect may actually push others away.
Young people will play a key role in the outcome of the next federal election. Research shows justice and environment are among their top priorities.
A social media researcher explains how to analyze your news feed in terms of content, circulation and consumption.
Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.
The Albanese government has announced a plan to ban kids under 16 from social media. There’s no explanation why this age was chosen, and the decision flies in the face of expert advice.
Belonging to a group can make you feel safe and supported. But there can be downsides, too.
Meta has revised how teenagers will experience Instagram. It’s a win – especially if it prompts parents to talk to their kids about online safety.
Several children have died after attempting these social media crazes.
Many parents might be concerned about the time their teens spend online. However, by modelling healthy online behaviours and habits can set an example their kids can follow.
Regulating how kids access the internet – including social media – must balance protection from harm with children’s rights to expression and information.
Syphilis cases have increased 30% among 15- to 24-year-olds in Philadelphia since 2019, while cases of gonorrhea are up 18%. Chlamydia cases have decreased but remain high.
Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.
Vaping is more common than cigarette smoking among young people but there are a variety of risks to users.
Congress is considering bills to protect kids online. Some of what’s in those bills could help, but some elements could be harmful.
Parents and other supportive adults can learn to recognize young people’s symptoms of disordered eating, which is a spectrum of unhealthy eating patterns and behaviour.
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Chief Program Officer, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Senior Research Fellow in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University
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Dean and Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Education & Communications Coordinator, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate professor, RMIT University