The Anxious Generation: how phone-free schools can reverse a mental health pandemic
March 12, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt says there is clear evidence that giving children smart phones with addictive social media has caused a mental health pandemic.
The NYU-Stern social psychologist, who also wrote The Happiness Hypothesis, spoke to us at the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos.
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