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Will Australia's Social Media Ban Save Gen Z? | Jonathan Haidt
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4:14Now PlayingIn this historical clip, Jonathan Haidt examines the sharp rise in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide among Generation Z, tracing how the shift from embodied social life to social media has coincided with a sudden and severe mental-health crisis across the Western world.
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Jonathan Haidt is a renowned social psychologist, NYU Professor and public intellectual. He is the author of The Coddling of the American Mind, which considers how we are setting our young people up for failure by overprotecting them and preventing them from developing resilience.
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