Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2025-06-19
Jordan Peterson & Jonathan Haidt: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #556
556. How Social Media Is Wrecking Kids' Lives and Stealing Their Childhood | Jonathan Haidt
In this urgent conversation, Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson dissect the silent catastrophe facing Gen Z—spiraling anxiety, attention collapse, and social isolation—all amplified by addictive tech.
Jordan Peterson recommended The Discovery Of The Unconscious by Henri F. Ellenberger, and discussed The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. Jonathan Haidt recommended Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, and Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves, and discussed The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others and The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Anxious Generation
Discussed“He's the author of a number of books, The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, The Happiness Hypothesis, and most recently, The Anxious Generation, which is the focus of our discussion today.”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Discussed“And so we wrote an Atlantic article called the coddling of the American mind. We turned that into a book in 2017. We went much deeper.”
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The Discovery Of The Unconscious
Recommended“There's a great book called um the history of the unconscious by Henri Alberge and he traces the history of psychoanalytic thought way back before memer and documents the hysteria so to speak which was the Freudian version of social contagion literally back it's 300 years so it's very well documented it's a great book by the way very useful”
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Dopamine Nation
Recommended“And this is Anna LMK's wonderful book, Dopamine Nation, was television, but you could have a habit, but it wasn't it didn't cause addiction in the same way.”
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Daring Young Men
Recommended“Well, so the boy's story is different from the girl story and it's a story of checking out of the real world and I draw from this in part on Richard Reeves who's a wonderful book of boys and men. He points out that you know boys and men used to dominate the economy and society in many ways.”
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Of Boys and Men
Recommended“Well, so the boy's story is different from the girl story and it's a story of checking out of the real world and I draw from this in part on Richard Reeves who's a wonderful book of boys and men. He points out that you know boys and men used to dominate the economy and society in many ways.”
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The Righteous Mind
Discussed“That figures in my first book the happiness hypothesis and again in my book the righteous mind in trying to understand moral emotions.”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He's the author of a number of books, The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, The Happiness Hypothesis, and most recently, The Anxious Generation, which is the focus of our discussion today.”
Passing The Righteous Mind
“He's the author of a number of books, The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, The Happiness Hypothesis, and most recently, The Anxious Generation, which is the focus of our discussion today.”
Passing The Happiness Hypothesis
“He's the author of a number of books, The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, The Happiness Hypothesis, and most recently, The Anxious Generation, which is the focus of our discussion today.”
Plugged The Anxious Generation
“The book we were discussing discussing is the anxious generation. When did it come out? It came out uh in March of 2024. And right and viewers and listeners can go to anxiousgeneration.com.”