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Episode: 602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think? | Freakonomics Radio

Published on September 12, 2024

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The Anxious Generation

by Jonathan Haidt

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In early 2020, the influential social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who teaches at New York University, joined this argument with a book titled "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness." Here is Haidt on MSNBC discussing this epidemic: "Everyone has a theory about what causes it."

In this segment, the podcast host, Stephen Dubner, explores the insights of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his book 'The Anxious Generation'. Haidt contends that the technological reshaping of childhood is contributing to a mental health crisis. The discussion also highlights Haidt's appearances on MSNBC, where he elaborates on the theories surrounding this epidemic.

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