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More realistic content may reduce social media harms for new moms

Scrolling through picture-perfect portrayals of motherhood may be doing real harm to moms, but a new study from University of Nebraska–Lincoln media scholar Ciera Kirkpatrick shows a "dose of reality" may mitigate some of the damage.

More realistic content may reduce social media harms for new moms
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Scrolling through picture-perfect portrayals of motherhood may be doing real harm to moms, but a new study from University of Nebraska–Lincoln media scholar Ciera Kirkpatrick shows a "dose of reality" may mitigate some of the damage.

Originally published at Phys.org

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