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The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation
The Tech Industry is using an old trick – shifting the responsibility entirely to us
Dec 11
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Gaia Bernstein
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Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
Dec 4
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Kara Alaimo, PhD
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Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable
The companies can do it, but they're incentivized to fight it
Dec 2
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Scott Galloway
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Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable
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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Mar 9, 2023
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Jon Haidt
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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
Feb 22, 2023
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Jon Haidt
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
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Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man
May 29
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Freya India
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Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man
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A Time We Never Knew
Apr 22
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Freya India
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Aren’t You Lonely?
Jul 5
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Freya India
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
Nov 12
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Jared Cooney Horvath
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The International Mental Health Crisis
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The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness
Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.
May 27
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David Blanchflower
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Alex Bryson
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The Global Loss of the U-Shaped Curve of Happiness
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The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
Apr 11
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Zach Rausch
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The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.
Jan 30
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Zach Rausch
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Thomas Potrebny
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Jon Haidt
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset (The GBD)
Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends
Jan 3
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Zach Rausch
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The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset (The GBD)
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Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
Oct 30, 2023
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
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The Case Against The Phone-Based Childhood
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Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
Dec 4
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Kara Alaimo, PhD
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Big News: KOSA is Being Marked Up Today While Meta Tries to Show (Too Late) That It Can Self-Regulate
An extraordinary month is unfolding in the international movement to roll back the phone-based childhood.
Sep 18
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
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Big News: KOSA is Being Marked Up Today While Meta Tries to Show (Too Late) That It Can Self-Regulate
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The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
Why are tech leaders so adamant about pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?
Sep 16
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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Lennon Torres
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The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 1
A recent meta-analysis contains yet overlooks evidence that multi-week social media reduction experiments consistently improve mental health
Aug 29
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 1
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Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
The Sunday Times (UK) just ran a major story illustrating the twin prescriptions in The Anxious Generation
Aug 12
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Lenore Skenazy
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Jon Haidt
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Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
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The Case for Independence, Free Play, and Responsibility in the Real World
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The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life
Oct 23
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Darren Whitehead
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The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
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Four Lessons for Raising Resilient Children in the Digital Age
What secular families can learn from faith-based communities
Oct 14
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Seth Kaplan
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Caroline Bryk
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Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
The Sunday Times (UK) just ran a major story illustrating the twin prescriptions in The Anxious Generation
Aug 12
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Lenore Skenazy
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Jon Haidt
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Journalist Sends Kids off on a Smartphone-Free Camping Trip – Unsupervised. Adults Quake. Kids Flourish.
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The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
We've forgotten what community really means.
Aug 2
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Seth Kaplan
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The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
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How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
Jul 24
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Lenore Skenazy
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How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
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We Live In Imaginary Worlds
This is all one big hallucination
Oct 21
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Freya India
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We Live In Imaginary Worlds
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No, I’m Not Always Available
Don’t apologize for disconnecting
Sep 19
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Freya India
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What Happened to FOMO?
We now fear taking part more than we fear missing out
Aug 8
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Freya India
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Aren’t You Lonely?
Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen
Jul 5
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Freya India
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A Gen Z Perspective on Why We Must Pass the Kids Online Safety Act
Social media holds immense promise to connect us. But to reap the benefits, we need to regulate it first.
Jul 1
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Sam Hiner
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A Gen Z Perspective on Why We Must Pass the Kids Online Safety Act
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Social Media is Disproportionately Hurting Girls
Parents Need to Have These Conversations with Their Daughters
Dec 4
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Kara Alaimo, PhD
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How Parents Can Fight Back Against the Digital Deluge of Life
Seven tips for parents to disconnect in the digital age.
Nov 20
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Katherine Johnson Martinko
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67 Screen-Free Activities for Kids
What to do with kids when it's dark and cold this winter
Nov 14
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Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
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67 Screen-Free Activities for Kids
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Research-Backed Advice on Screen Policies for Young Kids
Jacqueline Nesi and Cara Goodwin interpret a recent meta-analysis.
Sep 24
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Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
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Dr. Cara Goodwin, PhD
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Research-Backed Advice on Screen Policies for Young Kids
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One of the Best Documentaries on the Loss and Recovery Of Childhood Independence
“Chasing Childhood” contrasts the play-based childhood of the 1980s with the over-supervised and fearful childhoods of today. It’s great for inspiring…
Aug 7
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Margaret Munzer Loeb
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Eden Wurmfeld
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What Schools and Educators Can Do Now
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
Nov 12
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Jared Cooney Horvath
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The False Promise of Device-Based Education
A reevaluation of screens in schools
Oct 17
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Amy Tyson, MSW, LISW-S
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A Cure for Child Anxiety Hiding (and Seeking) in Plain Sight
Don’t just go phone free: Start a Play Club at your school too.
Aug 27
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Kevin Stinehart
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Should Schools Ban Phones?
Jacqueline Nesi evaluates the evidence related to phone-free schools
Aug 21
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Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
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Transform Your School: The Complete Guide to Going Phone-Free
A newly released resource from The Phone-Free Schools Movement and Fairplay
Aug 19
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Mileva Repasky
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What Governments and Tech Companies Can Do
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The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation
The Tech Industry is using an old trick – shifting the responsibility entirely to us
Dec 11
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Gaia Bernstein
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Scott Galloway Explains Why Age Gating Social Media Is Both Necessary and Doable
The companies can do it, but they're incentivized to fight it
Dec 2
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Scott Galloway
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Why Australia is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating a Social Media Account
A member of the Australian Parliament lays it out for us
Nov 26
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Andrew Leigh
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A Mission for Businesses and Entrepreneurs: Help Bring Back Childhood
Market forces got us into this mess, and market forces can help us escape
Oct 30
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Jess Butcher
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The Surgeon General Has New Social Media Guidelines. Minnesota Already Made Some of Them Into Law.
As Minnesota’s policies gain national attention, their recent social media law is an example worth following.
Aug 14
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Ravi Iyer
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 3
The recent meta-analysis of social media experiments achieved a statistically insignificant result only due to a string of errors.
Oct 4
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David Stein
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The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
Why are tech leaders so adamant about pushing their creations on other people’s kids, while protecting their own?
Sep 16
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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Lennon Torres
169
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The Worst Argument That Social-Media Companies Use to Defend Themselves
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 2
Fives types of errors in a recent meta-analysis bias the analysis in the same direction: that there is no effect of social media use on mental health
Sep 10
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 2
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The Fundamental Flaws of The Only Meta-Analysis of Social Media Reduction Experiments (And Why It Matters), Part 1
A recent meta-analysis contains yet overlooks evidence that multi-week social media reduction experiments consistently improve mental health
Aug 29
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
154
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How has mental health changed across demographic groups since 2010?
If social media is uniquely beneficial to adolescents in marginalized communities, we might expect to see their rates of anxiety and depression increase…
Jun 20
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Jean M. Twenge
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