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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
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
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August 2024

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
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
64
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.
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Kevin Stinehart
60
Should Schools Ban Phones?
Jacqueline Nesi evaluates the evidence related to phone-free schools
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Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
68
Transform Your School: The Complete Guide to Going Phone-Free
A newly released resource from The Phone-Free Schools Movement and Fairplay
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Mileva Repasky
44
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.
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Ravi Iyer
52
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
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Lenore Skenazy
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Jon Haidt
62
What Happened to FOMO?
We now fear taking part more than we fear missing out
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Freya India
110
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…
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Margaret Munzer Loeb
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Eden Wurmfeld
19
The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
We've forgotten what community really means.
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Seth Kaplan
85

July 2024

How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
Smartphones are trust blockers for parents
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Lenore Skenazy
110
Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World
Advice from the author of Childhood Unplugged
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Katherine Johnson Martinko
45
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