9 stories tagged jonathan-haidt, newest first.
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22 points by ptrhvns | 39 comments
A YouTube video from The Atlantic's The Permanent Questions in which David Brooks interviews Jonathan Haidt about AI's impact on education.
587 points by isolli | 224 comments
An After Babel essay by Christine Rosen, introduced by Jon Haidt, on how smartphones eliminate boredom and interstitial time, and what is lost with daydreaming.
474 points by cwwc | 471 comments
An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.
684 points by throwup238 | 627 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.
358 points by throwup238 | 335 comments
After Babel essay by Zach Rausch, introduced by Jon Haidt, arguing that the decline of close-knit local communities drove the loss of play-based childhood.
331 points by paulpauper | 308 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Mariana Brussoni, with a preface by Jon Haidt, arguing that children need risk, fear, and excitement in play and that adult fears harm them.
448 points by simonebrunozzi | 708 comments
After Babel post by Zach Rausch and Jon Haidt arguing that the early-2010s teen mental illness rise occurred simultaneously across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
338 points by trevin | 291 comments
An After Babel Substack essay by Jon Haidt and Peter Gray arguing that the decline of unsupervised free play is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis.
339 points by YuukiRey | 468 comments
Jonathan Haidt's After Babel Substack post laying out six propositions for evaluating evidence on whether social media causes mental illness among teens.