As of this month, 34 states and Washington, D.C., have policies aimed to reduce cellphone use at school, including complete or partial bans. One of the key figures who is credited with inspiring this ...

Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book made the case that screen time had "rewired" kids' brains. The Amazing Generation is a collab with ...

Jonathan Haidt has long promoted the idea of a play-based childhood and not a phone-based one. The NYU Stern School of Business professor writes in his bestselling book "The Anxious Generation" that ...

They welcomed their son in 2019, followed by their daughter in 2021.

Speaking to a packed crowd at Battell Chapel on Wednesday, the social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt ’85 invoked the biblical tale of the tower of Babel as a metaphor for the harms caused by ...

NEW YORK CITY — Before last year, Jonathan Haidt was already a well-known social psychologist. He had been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, had given four TED talks, and his ...

In The Amazing Generation, Dr. Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price argue that the tide is turning against smart phones for young people—they are ready to break their screen addiction. The co-authors ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. When my oldest son was 10, my husband and I gave in and gave ...

Jonathan Haidt in October 2025. A global public health emergency driven by the swift transition from a play-based to a phone-based childhood has created a “global destruction of human flourishing” ...

My Thursday column was in part about Gov. Sarah Sanders' association with psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt, who advocates for no cell phones in schools. The research for and writing of that ...