Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.
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Reversing the takeover of childhood by technology requires a change in public opinion first, because that is the signal political leaders act on.
To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
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The minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.
Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.
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To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
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Reversing the takeover of childhood by technology requires a change in public opinion first, because that is the signal political leaders act on.
To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
Why You Should Be a Techno-Skeptic Said 2 Jun 2026
The minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.
Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.
Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids Said 17 Feb 2026
A parental-consent exception defeats a social media age limit, because it drops each family straight back into the trap the law exists to break.
I cannot support any law that includes a “parental consent” exception—it defeats the central purpose of the law by dropping parents and children straight back into the same collective-action trap
Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids Said 17 Feb 2026
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Social media in its current form harms people of all ages; the line is drawn at childhood only because adults are allowed to choose things that are bad for them.
Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids Said 17 Feb 2026
Parents are caught in a collective-action trap over their children and social media, which only a rule binding on everyone can release them from.
Parents want this. They know social media can harm their children, yet many feel trapped because everyone else’s kids are already online.
Australia's New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First Said 10 Dec 2025
An age limit on social media does not need perfect enforcement to work, because its job is to change the default rather than to stop every child.
The goal is not perfect enforcement. Some kids will still find workarounds. The goal is to shift the environment so children are not pressured into digital spaces they don’t want, simply to avoid being left out.
Australia's New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First Said 10 Dec 2025
Students have lost the capacity for sustained attention over the past decade, and they report the difficulty themselves.
So many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.
The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generation Said 1 Dec 2025
The share of American teenagers who say that life often feels meaningless surged as Gen Z entered adolescence.
But as soon as Gen Z entered the dataset, around 2013, meaninglessness surged.
The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generation Said 1 Dec 2025
Spirituality is a real part of human nature and central to flourishing, whether or not God exists.
I approach spirituality as a social scientist who believes that whether or not God exists, spirituality is a deep part of human nature, shaped by natural selection and cultural evolution, and central to human flourishing and self-transcendence.
The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generation Said 1 Dec 2025
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Loved Dancing in the Streets
This is one of the most original and interesting books I've read in the last five years.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
Recommends The How of Happiness
The How of Happiness I would describe as the state of the art in evidence-based positive psychology. Sonja Lyubomirsky has done the best studies on how simple interventions, simple things you can do, on a daily or weekly basis, have measurable effects on your happiness. So if your goal is to actually raise your happiness level, then this is the best book to read – it has very concrete suggestions of what you can do.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
Recommends The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less
That work was done especially by Barry Schwartz, in his book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. That is just such a good book...if I'd had six books, I would have included that one.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
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Loved Stumbling on Happiness
The Gilbert book is just so much fun to read. He's one of the funniest people, certainly in psychology – he's just endlessly witty, and reading it is like strapping yourself into a roller coaster.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
Recommends Ambition
Let's say that if the Buddha had been born in the Midwest of the US he would have written Brim's book. Brim has a Midwesterner's work ethic, and Americans moralise work quite a lot...so Brim says don't drop out of the game, play it, but play it so you don't get trapped, play it wisely, so that you get to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
Loved Dhammapada
The Dhammapada is one of the greatest psychological works ever written, and certainly one of the greatest before 1900. It is masterful in its understanding of the nature of consciousness, and in particular the way we are always striving and never satisfied.
fivebooks.com 27 Jul 2010
Where they publish
Site jonathanhaidt.com His own site: books, research and talks.
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Newsletter After Babel His Substack on social media, childhood and mental health.
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- Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years 8 Jun 2026 Historian David Courtwright helps us understand how we got here and what’s likely to come in this chapter from The Age of Addiction.
- A Note on a Correction from Jon and Zach 12 Mar 2026 Regarding our retraction of the guest post "30 Facts About Childhood Today that Will Terrify You"
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LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/jonathan-haidt-2a594666 His LinkedIn.
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