Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media (Ep. 209) | Conversations with Tyler

In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effects of this “great rewiring of childhood” will continue to worsen without the adoption of several norms and a more hands-on approach to regulating social media platforms. But might technological advances and good old human resilience allow kids to adapt more easily than he thinks? Jonathan joined Tyler to discuss this question and more, including whether left-wingers or right-wingers make for better parents, the wisest person Jonathan has interacted with, psychological traits as a source of identitarianism, whether AI will solve the screen time problem, why school closures didn’t seem to affect the well-being of young people, whether the mood shift since 2012 is not just about social media use, the benefits of the broad

Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media (Ep. 209) | Conversations with Tyler April 3, 2024 Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media (Ep. 209) Are we in for a decades-long dip in teen mental health? Subscribe Apple Google Stitcher Spotify YouTube You may also like: In The Anxious Generation , Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effe

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