Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media

Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media

In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a "play-based childhood" to a "phone-based childhood" around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effects of this "great rewiring of childhood" will continue to worsen without the adoption of several norms and a more hands-on approach to regulating social media platforms.

But might technological advances and good old human resilience allow kids to adapt more easily than he thinks?

Jonathan joined Tyler to discuss this question and more, including whether left-wingers or right-wingers make for better parents, the wisest person Jonathan has interacted with, psychological traits as a source of identitarianism, whether AI will solve the screen time problem, why school closures didn't seem to affect the well-being of young people, whether the mood shift since 2012 is not just about social media use, the benefits of the broader internet vs. social media, the four norms to solve the biggest collective action problems with smartphone use, the feasibility of age-gating social media, and more.

Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video.

Recorded February 14th, 2024.

Other ways to connect

Photo Credits: Jayne Riew

Jaksot(283)

Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art

Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art

Help us keep the conversations going in 2026. Donate to Conversations with Tyler today. Gaurav Kapadia has deliberately avoided publicity throughout his career in investing, which makes this conversa...

10 Joulu 202559min

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other

Help us keep the conversations going in 2026. Donate to Conversations with Tyler today. Dan Wang argues that China is a nation of engineers while America is a nation of lawyers, and this distinction ...

3 Joulu 20251h 32min

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Cass Sunstein is one of the most widely cited legal scholars of all time and among the most prolific writers working today. This year alone he has five books out, including Imperfect Oracle on the str...

26 Marras 20251h 19min

Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference

Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference

Blake Scholl is one of the leading figures working to bring back civilian supersonic flight. As the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, he's building a new generation of supersonic aircraft and pushin...

19 Marras 202537min

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Register for the Austin listener meetup Donald S. Lopez Jr. is among the foremost scholars of Buddhism, whose work consistently distinguishes Buddhist reality from Western fantasy. A professor at the...

12 Marras 202557min

Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference

Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference

Register for the Austin listener meetup Sam Altman makes his second appearance on the show to discuss how he's managing OpenAI's explosive growth, what he's learned about hiring hardware people, what ...

5 Marras 202554min

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Tyler considers Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage one of the best books of the last decade, and its author Jonny Steinberg one of the most underrated writers and thinkers—in North America, at ...

28 Loka 202552min

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

George Selgin has spent over four decades thinking about money, banking, and economic history, and Tyler has known him for nearly all of it. Selgin's new book False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise ...

15 Loka 20251h 8min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
rss-narsisti
adhd-podi
psykopodiaa-podcast
rss-uskonto-on-tylsaa
rss-rahamania
rss-duodecim-lehti
rss-valo-minussa-2
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
rahapuhetta
rss-niinku-asia-on
aloita-meditaatio
kesken
dear-ladies
mielipaivakirja
rss-eron-alkemiaa
rss-tietoinen-yhteys-podcast-2
aamukahvilla