Is "good vibes only" really good? Investigating perceptions of toxic positivity on social media

• Main Authors: Wan, Aretha Li Hong, Wong, Stacy Siqi
• Other Authors: Lew Zijian
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Toxic positivity; Social media; Emotional contagion
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174380
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Social media plays increasingly large roles in people’s lives, forming norms regarding posting positive content and resulting in a positivity bias on many platforms. Emotional contagion posits that posting positive content should generate positive emotions, which in turn should inspire people to pos...