Launch of the World Happiness Report 2026.
Many people blame social media for this fall in happiness, but does this hypothesis stand the test of rigorous scientific analysis? Chapter 1: Executive summary: happiness and social media Chapter 2: International evidence on happiness and social media Chapter 3; Social media is harming adolescents at a scale large enough to cause changes at the population level Chapter 4; Translating scientific evidence into effective policies for health and technology requires care Chapter 5: Adolescent life satisfaction and social media use: gender differences in an international dataset Chapter 6 : Social media, wasting time, and product traps Chapter 7: Problematic social media use and adolescent wellbeing: the role of family socioeconomic status across 43 countries Chapter 8: Internet use, social media, and well-being: the role of trust, social connections, and emotional bonds . ...