Through his work, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that "a majority of parents wish social media apps didn't exist." ...

Haidt is being cited in legislative efforts to keep minors off social media in Alabama, Florida, and Australia, and schools are banning phones, another favorite reform of his.

For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones until high school and to keep kids off social media until the age of 16. An edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Michelle Obama discussed with psychologist Jonathan Haidt how parents need resilience to limit children's social media use ...

Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

Haidt argues that there is clear evidence of a causality between social media use and harmful impacts on children. “We are now 12 years into a public health emergency that began around 2012.

Jonathan Haidt: So when I really got into this research in 2019 after I published The Coddling of the American Mind with Greg Lukianoff, we suggested that maybe social media had something to do ...

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt is calling for parents and policymakers to roll back the "phone-based childhood", which he says is "hurting" child and adolescent mental health.

For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones until high school and to keep kids off social media until the age of 16. An edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt is calling for parents and policymakers to roll back the "phone-based childhood", which he says is "hurting" child and adolescent mental health.