Becky is depressed - by Tove K - Wood From Eden

Jonathan Haidt and his team say teenage girls are depressed because they use social media too much. It could also be that girls are depressed because the outlooks for girls have deteriorated

My favorite psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, has started an interesting Substack: After Babel. The point of it is to try the ideas of a future book about the link between teenage mental health issues and social media use. Haidt and his team reason that it is better to get all possible criticism before the book is launched than after. That is clever, I think. Everybody should do like that. Haidt's hypothesis is that the rise of social media is to blame for the rise of self-reported depression and suicidal thoughts. He means that the trend is most of all visible for teenage girls. While there is…

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