Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the forefront of the campaign to ban social media for under-16s and end what he ...

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the forefront of the campaign to ban social media for under-16s and end what he calls “phone-based childhoods”. His book, The Anxious Generation, sparked a ...

I ran mental health for Indiana. Banning kids from social media lets us avoid the harder question: Why can't we control ...

It seems clear that constant, obsessive thinking about one’s self-presentation is a bad, unhappy way of living. | Opinion ...

Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book made the case that screen time had "rewired" kids' brains. The Amazing Generation is a collab with science journalist Catherine Price and graphic novelist Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...

As of this month, 34 states and Washington, D.C., have policies aimed to reduce cellphone use at school, including complete or partial bans. One of the key figures who is credited with inspiring this ...

I know that I am about to make myself very unpopular with many of my students, but I write to explain my support for an ...

Two of the Big Tech giants, Meta and Google, are facing claims in a California state court that their platforms are intentionally designed to be addictive and harmful to children’s ...

Last week, the House of Lords passed an amendment backing a ban on social media for under-16s, inspired in part by ...

(CNN) — South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children under 16 is about protecting them from addictive algorithms, asking: ...

When interpersonal challenges grow more intense and public, stress isn’t the only cost. Recent research reveals the hidden ...