Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Haidt is the author of “The Happiness Hypothesis” (2006) and of the New York Times bestsellers “The Righteous Mind” (2012) and “The Coddling of the American Mind” (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the world’s “Top 50 Thinkers”. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. His new book is “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” which was released in March.
In this interview recorded for the Forum on the Family 2024, Jonathan Haidt speaks to CEO Bob McCoskrie about "Overprotecting Children In Real World - Underprotecting In Virtual World", including the latest research from New Zealand.
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