Jonathan Haidt
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The Anxious Generation: how phone-free schools can reverse a mental health pandemic

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March 12, 2025

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In 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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