Jonathan Haidt in October 2025. A global public health emergency driven by the swift transition from a play-based to a phone-based childhood has created a “global destruction of human flourishing” ...

Author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt teamed up with science journalist Catherine Price to speak directly to tweens in The Amazing Generation: A Guide to Freedom and Fun in a Screen-Filled ...

For months following the publication of Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 book, “The Anxious Generation,” its argument that attachment to phones and social media was a main contributor to the decline in kids’ ...

Speaking to a packed crowd at Battell Chapel on Wednesday, the social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt ’85 invoked the biblical tale of the tower of Babel as a metaphor for the harms caused by ...

Jonathan Haidt ’85, a social psychologist who recently published the bestselling “The Anxious Generation,” warned of technology’s harmful effects on Generation Z and urged students to reclaim their ...

We’ve done more this year to protect children from the harms of smartphones and social media. Is it enough? By Jonathan Haidt Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and the author of “The Anxious ...