My video lectures/interviews about social media: First: Here is a Youtube playlist with all of my talks on social media’s effects on teen mental health and democratic norms and institutions. Plus a few comedy clips on the topic.

Mar 26, 2024 · In the summer of 2022, I was working on a book project — Life After Babel: Adapting to a world we can no longer share — about how smartphones and social media rewired many societies in the 2010s, creating conditions that amplify the …

Mar 20, 2024 · New Jonathan Haidt book, The Anxious Generation, argues the negative effects of social media aren’t an inevitability for American kids.

Social media, especially short-format video, like TikTok, decimates our attention muscle — especially so in kids. This is why I’m asking us to adopt new norms, including no smartphones before 14 and no social media until 16.

Jan 23, 2025 · Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, thinks a new approach to digital technologies could reverse the trend. Haidt is proposing four new norms to “restore childhood”, including limiting access to …

Social Media is a Major Contributing Cause . Testimony of Jonathan Haidt . Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University – Stern School of Business . Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Technology, Privacy, and the Law . May 4, 2022 . I am a social psychologist who has been studying moral psychology and moral development

Mar 24, 2024 · The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns social media is fueling a mental health crisis.

Jun 10, 2024 · We discuss the dramatic rise of suicide, depression, and anxiety as a result of replacing a play-based childhood with smartphones, social media, and video games.

Apr 3, 2024 · Are we in for a decades-long dip in teen mental health? In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” around the early 2010s.

Social Media and Mental Health: A Collaborative Review. This document collects and organizes dozens of published studies addressing whether social media is a major cause of the rapid rise in adolescent depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide in the USA and UK since the early 2010s.