ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2019
Excessive social media users demonstrate impaired decision making in the Iowa Gambling Task.
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- The Iowa Gambling Task: Men and Women Perform Differently. A Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
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- Neurocognitive function among individuals with problematic social media use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Digital risk perception among middle-aged and older adults in China: a perspective from mobile phone dependence within the I-PACE model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Excessive short-form video use is associated with increased risk-taking but not with altered ambiguity-based decision-making.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Computational mechanisms underlying the impact of Pavlovian bias on instrumental learning in problematic social media users.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Problematic social media use is associated with believing in and engaging with fake news.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impulsivity and compulsivity in compulsive buying.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Systematic research is needed on the potential effects of lifelong technology experience on cognition: a mini-review and recommendations.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- The Relationship Between Social Media Information Sharing Characteristics and Problem Behaviors Among Chinese College Students Under Recommendation Algorithms.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- COVID-19, Social Media Dependency and Desire for Omnipresence: Ways Forward.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Article
- Reduced loss aversion in value-based decision-making and edge-centric functional connectivity in patients with internet gaming disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Article
- Social media use and abuse: Different profiles of users and their associations with addictive behaviours.Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Article
- The influence of Facebook intrusion and task context on cognitive control.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Need for cognition moderates the impairment of decision making caused by nightshift work in nurses.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Decision Making and Risk Propensity in Individuals with Tendencies towards Specific Internet-Use Disorders.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Problematic Social Networking Site use-effects on mental health and the brain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsOnline social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook provide users with myriad social rewards. These social rewards bring users back to SNSs repeatedly, with some users displaying maladaptive, excessive SNS use. Symptoms of this excessive SNS use are similar to symptoms of substance use and behavioral addictive disorders. Importantly, individuals with substance use and behavioral addictive disorders have difficulty making value-based decisions, as demonstrated with paradigms like the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT); however, it is currently unknown if excessive SNS users display the same decision-making deficits. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between excessive SNS use and IGT performance.
methodsWe administered the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS) to 71 participants to assess their maladaptive use of the Facebook SNS. We next had them perform 100 trials of the IGT to assess their value-based decision making.
resultsWe found a negative correlation between BFAS score and performance in the IGT across participants, specifically over the last block of 20 trials. There were no correlations between BFAS score and IGT performance in earlier blocks of trials. DISCUSSION: Our results demonstrate that more severe, excessive SNS use is associated with more deficient value-based decision making. In particular, our results indicate that excessive SNS users may make more risky decisions during the IGT task.
conclusionThis result further supports a parallel between individuals with problematic, excessive SNS use, and individuals with substance use and behavioral addictive disorders.
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