Candice Odgers: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of developmental psychology at the University of California, Irvine
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The identification of social media as the culprit, as the biggest predictor of all the things that we worry about in our kids, is misleading, because it doesn't show up that way in the vast majority of studies.”
Where Candice Odgers has been quoted
- The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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