We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users’ emotional state in two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks ...

1,2 Amy S. Paller, MS, MD, is the chair of dermatology and director of the Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-Based Center, as well as the Walter J. Hamlin Professor of Dermatology at Northwestern ...