According to a new study, teen films have a dirty little secret — and it's harming the real-life adolescents that watch them. After analyzing dozens of teen films, communications researchers at the University of Ohio found, per a school press release, that the experiences depicted in them was about as disparate from the lives and experiences of actual teens, it may as well have been speculative fiction. Looking at 53 teen films released between 2012 and 2021 — titles like "Lady Bird," "The Fault in Our Stars," and "Percy Jackson" — the study led by PhD student Kate Stewart revealed […]