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The Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt recommends parents follow these four guidelines to curb smartphone use.
The number of states banning smartphones in schools is growing. New York is now the largest state in the U.S. to ban ...
The acceptance of smartphones in schools has fueled cyberbullying, conflict among students, and had a cumulative, enduring, and deleterious effect on adolescents’ abilities to focus and apply ...
THIS autumn, smartphones will be banned in Jersey schools for learners up to age 16. The Education Minister’s decision is a ...
Conversations about technology aren't only about how we regulate children's screen time. It's about how adults model our ...
In the heart of Macau, where neon lights reflect off high-rise glass and digital connectivity pulses through every corner of ...
Haidt introduces the idea of a “phone-based childhood” and argues that the decline in unsupervised outdoor play has led to significant mental health issues in Generation Z — those born after ...
From the first brick-sized IBM model in 1994 to the explosive 2024 bestseller that blamed Big Tech for rewiring kids’ brains ...
When it comes to smartphones, parents often fall into a “collective action trap” – the feeling that they have to give in because “everyone else” has done so. The authors suggested four norms to ...
Why Jonathan Haidt Is ‘Wildly Optimistic’ About Gen Z The social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation” talks about how to combat the toll of smartphones and social media. By ...
Many see video games as a negative component of many young men’s adolescence, but social psychologist and author Jonathan ...
You may remember that Haidt, a professor at NYU and the author of the bestselling book The Anxious Generation, was a part of our "Life You Want" class on the teenage mental health crisis last year.