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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis
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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.
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational
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Jon Haidt
307
A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
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Freya India
194
The Mass Trauma of Porn
What have we done?
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Freya India
401
On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
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Christine Rosen
84
Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man
“Her need for me to catalogue her life is slowly draining my soul"
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Freya India
269
Aren’t You Lonely?
Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen
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Freya India
130
On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
How social media makes us worse people
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Jon Haidt
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Freya India
107
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
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Jared Cooney Horvath
130
TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
126
The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools
Sophie Winkleman lays out the reasons why screen-based schooling is interfering with education and harming children’s development
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Jon Haidt
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Sophie Winkleman
69
Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus
Chapter 3 of The Coddling explains how the oppressor/victim mindset created fertile ground for hate
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Jon Haidt
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