Doomscrolling: The Brain on Bad News

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Doomscrolling -- the very contemporary phenomenon that so many of us just can help but fall victim to!

Jacinta and Lachlan chat about what Doomscrolling is, why we do it, what it does to the brain, and maybe how we can mitigate it.

 

RESOURCES:

• Mayo Clinic Article: Doomscrolling: Stop the scroll, protect your mental health - Alisa Bowman
• Wired Article: How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology - Kenneth R Rosen
• Sharma B., Lee, S. S., & Johnson, B. K. (2022). The Dark at the End of the Tunnel: Doomscrolling on Social Media Newsfeeds. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 3(1: Spring 2022). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000059
• Dr. A. Shaji George, A.S. Hovan George, Dr. T. Baskar, & Dr. M. M. Karthikeyan. (2024). Reclaiming Our Minds: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Excessive Doomscrolling. Partners Universal Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 1(3), 17–39. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13737987