Curious about how screens can impact youth’s emotional development? A study by Uhls et al. (2014) provides some insight into this question. In this experiment, a group of 6th graders attended a 5-day camp with no screen access 🏕️, while the control group continued with their usual daily activities. The emotion recognition skills of youth in both groups were measured before and after this 5-day period. They found that the youth that spent time in the no-screens summer camp showed bigger improvements in their emotion recognition skills compared to the control group.
Thank you to research assistant Yaein Kim for putting together this post!
