---
id: "entity-stanford-social-media-lab"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Stanford Social Media Lab"
aliases: ["Social Media Lab"]
source_timestamps: ["§ The Workslop Pressure Cooker"]
tags: ["academic-institution"]
related: ["entity-betterup-labs", "entity-jeffrey-hancock", "concept-workslop"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-38-ai-workslop"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/why-people-create-ai-workslop-and-how-to-stop-it"
sourceTitle: "Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It"
---
# Stanford Social Media Lab

The **Stanford Social Media Lab** is an academic research lab in Stanford's Department of Communication, founded and directed by co-author [[entity-jeffrey-t-hancock]]. It collaborated with [[entity-betterup-labs]] on a two-year study of AI adoption and its psychological impacts in the workplace — the research base for the [[concept-workslop-d38]] construct.

- **Canonical URL:** comm.stanford.edu (Stanford Department of Communication; lab page under faculty Jeffrey T. Hancock).