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

• Kathryn Buchanan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: k.buchanan@essex.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3454-9045

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• Lara B. Aknin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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• Shaaba Lotun,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom

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• Gillian M. Sandstrom

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom

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