Is it really that damn phone?
Is it really that damn phone?
- March 15, 2026
- Candice Odgers, psychology and CPIP affiliate, The Panther, March 15, 2026
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Candice Odgers, [UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of psychology and informatics] joined Chapman’s department of psychology on March 2 for a discussion on adolescent mental health in the digital age. Odgers argued that 90% of the research conducted does not support the prevailing media narrative that smartphones and social media use among teenagers is causing an increase in mental illness.
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