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. …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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.

Mar 29, 2023 · The social psychologist and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt wants journalists to stop being wishy-washy about the teen girl mental health crisis.

Apr 20, 2024 · Tech companies and social-media platforms, Haidt insists, by “designing a firehose of addictive content” and causing kids to forgo the social for the solitary, have “rewired …

Mar 29, 2024 · The social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation” talks about how to combat the toll of smartphones and social media.