https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/
Haidt, J., Rausch, Z., & Twenge, J. (ongoing). Social Media and Mental Health: A Collaborative Review. This document collects and organizes dozens of published studies that address the question of whether social media is a major cause of the rapid rise in adolescent depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide in the U.S. and UK since the early

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/jonathan-haidt-wants-you-to-take-away-your-kids-phone
David Remnick interviews Jonathan Haidt, the author of "The Anxious Generation," about the effect that social media is having on children's mental health and how we can reverse course.

https://verilymag.com/2024/05/smartphones-harming-children-anxious-generation-zach-rausch-jonathan-haidt-2024
In his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Creating an Epidemic of Mental Illness, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues the culprit is a massive, sudden switch from raising kids on play to raising kids on phones—specifically, smartphones loaded with life-sucking social media apps.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/health/cell-phones-jonathan-haidt-wellness/index.html
With his book "The Anxious Generation," social psychologist Jonathan Haidt calls for a revolution in how parents administer smartphones and social media to children. CNN values your feedback 1.

https://harvardpublichealth.org/mental-health/jonathan-haidt-on-countering-negative-effects-of-social-media/
Haidt makes a strong case that social media—as distinct from the internet at large—is severely harming young people. Rates of mood disorders among U.S. college undergraduates suddenly spiked in the early 2010s. The number of kids reporting depression and anxiety rose steadily every year of that decade, till rates were up 134 percent and 106

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2
Social-media platforms aren't always social. Credit: Getty. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane (2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/review/jonathan-haidt-the-anxious-generation.html
In "The Anxious Generation," Jonathan Haidt says we're failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech. ... Mars is a stand-in for the noxious world of social media. If we'd say

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jonathan-haidt-on-how-social-media-is-rewiring-childhood/id582272991?i=1000653186945
Jonathan Haidt On How Social Media Is Rewiring Childhood. The Rich Roll Podcast. This week, I am joined by Jonathan Haidt, an NYU professor and best-selling author, to discuss the significant negative impact of technology and social media on young people's mental health and well-being. This phenomenon was catalyzed between 2010 and 2015 when

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7R2lAP7KeJphWDSz09UeH71MiBW1rZM0
Here are the talks and interviews I have done that examine the effects of social media, on teen mental health and on the stability of democracy

https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/social-media-riskier-kids-screen-time
By Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and Kevin Cummins. Suppose your 13-year-old daughter wants to subsist on candy during this drawn-out pandemic, and she challenges you to prove that candy is bad for her. For help, you turn to the Internet — and find many newspaper articles with headlines like "Don't freak out about sweets for teens!".

https://www.richroll.com/podcast/jonathan-haidt-827/
Today, we talk about the profound impact of technology and social media on young people's mental health and well-being. Jonathan explores the loss of childhood independence, the rise in suicide rates, and gender-specific differences in how technology affects mental health. Critical harms of hyperconnectivity, such as social deprivation, sleep

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/books/jonathan-haidt-gen-z-smartphones-interview.html
While the Covid-19 pandemic likely made things worse, these trends were already well underway between 2010 and 2015, said Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at N.Y.U.'s Stern School of

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/jonathan-haidt-smartphones-social-media-teens-mental-health.html
Jonathan Haidt wants kids to grow up without social media in their pockets. There's just one problem. On the issue of kids, smartphones, and social media, a vibe shift is happening, and it's

https://jonathanhaidt.com/anxious-generation/
The Anxious Generation offers an explanation by telling two stories. The first is about the decline of the play-based childhood, which began in the 1980s and accelerated in the '90s. All mammals need free play, and lots of it, to wire up their brains during childhood to prepare them for adulthood. But many parents in Anglo countries began to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-nBEX1FgBk
Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, argues that smartphones and social media are the cause of widespread increases in mental health issues among young peo

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/smartphones-youth-mental-health-jonathan-haidt-book-debate-rcna145928
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's " The Anxious Generation ," published last week, argues that the smartphone-driven "great rewiring of childhood" is causing an "epidemic of mental

https://www.noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-it-is-making-us-ungovernable/
June 13, 2024. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and author of "The Anxious Generation.". In a conversation with Noema editor-in-chief Nathan Gardels, the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the impact of social media on truth in politics, the mental health crisis of today's youth, and what to do about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-theres-no-undoing-techs-great-rewiring-of-childhood/
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/author-suggests-guidelines-parents-kids-phones-social-media/story?id=108509992
Jonathan Haidt is the author of a new book on kids and mental health. ... Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and

https://www.c-span.org/video/?534738-1/jonathan-haidt-social-medias-impact-culture
Social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt discussed how social media has fragmented culture and politics. His remarks began with an overview of data that described the rewiring of mental

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/are-smartphones-and-social-media-harming-teen-mental-health-heres-why-experts-are-split
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation has been near the top of bestseller lists for months, stoking debate around how smartphones and social media are in his words

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-kids-aren-t-all-right-are-phones-really-to-blame/ar-BB1kmai0
Judith Warner's most recent book is "And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School.". By Jonathan Haidt. Penguin Press. 385 pp. $30. In 'The Anxious Generation

https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/353979/this-is-your-kid-on-smartphones
Jonathan Haidt. There have always been concerns about youth mental health, and there's been a slow rise since around the 1950s in depression and anxiety. As we get wealthier, as we get further

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2023/03/jonathan-haidt-social-media-dangerous-teenage-girls-anxiety-depression
Social media is a major cause of mental illness in girls, not just a tiny correlate. We are now 11 years into the largest epidemic of teen mental illness on record. As the CDC's report showed, most girls are suffering, and nearly a third have seriously considered suicide.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-nyt-bestseller-jonathan-haidt-the-anxious/id1366633318?i=1000658984369
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Zibby to discuss THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, a must-read investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. ... to two main factors: the overprotection of children and the rise of social media. He shares his recommendations

https://www.c-span.org/video/?519526-5/jonathan-haidt-discusses-impact-social-media
New York University Stern School of Business social psychologist and Atlantic contributor Jonathan Haidt discusses his recent piece in "The Atlantic" looking at the impact of social media.

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Bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is spotlighting the alarming effects of excessive screen time on children. In his latest book "The Anxious Generation," Haidt makes a connection between the loss of a play-based childhood and the rise of the phone-based childhood.

https://reason.com/2023/03/29/the-statistically-flawed-evidence-that-social-media-is-causing-the-teen-mental-health-crisis/
Jonathan Haidt's integrity and transparency are admirable, but the studies he's relying on aren't strong enough to support his conclusions. ... Social media time of Q1 refers to 30 minutes or less

https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/other-voices/article288920384.html
Last month, I reviewed Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation," which details how constant social media use is crippling the psychological health of our children. But the dangers he

https://unherd.com/watch-listen/porn-and-social-media-are-killing-childhood/
Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist, co-author of bestseller The Coddling of the American Mind and author of the new book The Anxious Generation. His theory is simple: the introduction of smartphones to children around 2011 accelerated the crisis of social media addiction. He joins UnHerd's Florence Read to discuss parenting