Jonathan Haidt Returns (on the Anxious Generation)

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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that smartphones and tablets pose greater dangers to children than real-world risks, citing attention fragmentation as a serious concern
He identifies four harms from increased device access and emphasizes that gamifying education desensitizes children to dopamine release
Jonathan discusses how overprotectiveness paradoxically emerged from the safest generation and advocates for creating exciting, in-person social childhoods