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Through his work, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that "a majority of parents wish social media apps didn't exist." ...
Haidt: When I started writing The Anxious Generation, I thought it was going to be a story about girls and social media, because that's where we have the most data.
Michelle Obama discussed with psychologist Jonathan Haidt how parents need resilience to limit children's social media use and to protect their kids online.
Haidt: Sure, but the claims made for the benefits of social media are almost invariably benefits of the internet, not social media.
Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.
Have you noticed YouTube videos getting shorter and shorter? Psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson believes that isn’t an accident. He ...
Today, Haidt joins Oprah on her podcast for the second time. While their last episode from April aimed at outlining some tangible social media solutions for parents and teens, this one focuses on ...
Many see video games as a negative component of many young men’s adolescence, but social psychologist and author Jonathan ...
Over the past few years there has been a growing chorus of parents, doctors and legal experts who have been sounding the alarm about the effects of social media on teenagers. Jonathan Haidt, a ...
For answers, I reached out to Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU and the author of The Anxious Generation. For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones until ...