Facebook's emotional consequences: Why Facebook causes a decrease in mood and why people still use it

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 359-363

  Sagioglou, Christina ^a   Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting error; Facebook; Meaningful activity; Mood; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING;

EMOTIONAL STATE; FACEBOOK; FORECASTING ERROR; MOOD; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84897410423     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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