We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users’ emotional state in two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks befor
In many social science experiments, subjects often interact with each other and as a result one unit's treatment influences the outcome of another unit. Over the last decade, a significant progress ha
Online supplementary Fig. S2: Placebo outcomes: Public acceptance of abortion before legalization. This placebo test examines whether attitudes toward abortion—an unrelated social attitude—syst
