Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book — arguing that smartphone adoption and social media use after 2012 caused the global mental health crisis among adolescents — with specific recommendations for phone-free schools, delayed social media access, and free-range childhood.
Creates the smartphone-mental health crisis argument — The Anxious Generation synthesizes the post-2012 data on adolescent mental health (especially for girls) with research on social media use to argue that the phone-based childhood that began around 2012 caused the subsequent mental health deterioration.
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