The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into ...

Haidt offers suggestions in an online video, found by Googling “Author Jonathan Haidt Discusses ‘The Anxious Generation.’ ” Pay special attention to the girl who is not only on the cusp of ...

Jonathan Haidt: Kids always had play-based childhoods, but we gradually let that fade away because of our growing fears of kidnapping and other threats in the 1980s and 1990s. What arose to fill ...

Why Jonathan Haidt Is ‘Wildly Optimistic’ About Gen Z. The social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation” talks about how to combat the toll of smartphones and social media.

Jonathan Haidt, author of the buzzy new book “The Anxious Generation,” says social media has “rewired childhood” to the point of danger — and made girls’ lives much wo… ...

Personal Technology; Jonathan Haidt Blamed Tech for Teen Anxiety. Managing the Blowback Has Become a Full-Time Job. The bestselling author is calling on parents to take away their children’s phones.

You may remember that Haidt, a professor at NYU and the author of the bestselling book The Anxious Generation, was a part of our "Life You Want" class on the teenage mental health crisis last year.

Jonathan Haidt saw something more—a ritual carried out by adherents of what he calls a “new religion,” an auto-da-fé against a heretic for a violation of orthodoxy.

Jonathan Haidt delivering the 2017 Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute, Nov. 15: Today’s identity politics . . . teaches the exact opposite of what we think a liberal arts education ...

So I asked Haidt, an admirer of Seligman’s work, about the psychology of happiness, which was the subject of Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.