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By age 25, make sure to learn this crucial soft skill, says Ivy League psychologist: 'It is urgent'
"It is urgent that you restore your brain," said Haidt, who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and wrote the ...
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Jonathan Haidt’s urgent call to reform childhood in the age of smartphones and social media
In his book The Anxious Generation, author Jonathan Haidt advocates for far stricter rules for smartphone use to allow ...
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What Jonathan Haidt Thought When He Watched Adolescence
Adolescence, the Netflix miniseries, presents a terrible possibility—that a seemingly “good” kid in a normal English town, with two well-meaning parents, could be drawn so far down the ...
Does Tween Tech Study Prove Jonathan Haidt Right?
"This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children," Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of 11- to ...
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"Screen-obsessed schools are ruining our children" - Hugh Grant campaigns against laptops and tablets in classrooms
Actor Hugh Grant is on a new mission, he has joined hands with social psychology expert, Dr. Jonathan Haidt, to lead a ...
Hugh Grant blasts his children's 'posh private schools' for 'pathetic' rules
Hugh Grant blasted his children's "posh private schools" for promoting the use of screens in classes and criticized "pathetic ...
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Gov. Sanders tours Colbert Middle School in Fayetteville, talks phone-free pilot program
Sarah Huckabee Sanders made several key stops around Northwest Arkansas Thursday alongside Dr. Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation. One stop was John L. Colbert Middle School in ...