De Amerikaanse sociaal psycholoog Jonathan Haidt vindt met zijn aanklacht tegen het gevaar van social media voor jongeren een welwillend oor bij bezorgde ouders.||De Amerikaanse sociaal psycholoog Jonathan Haidt vindt met zijn aanklacht tegen het gevaar van social media voor het welbevinden van jongeren een welwillend oor bij bezorgde ouders en professionals. Maar wetenschappers in Nederland keren zich tegen zijn invloed. "Haidt wakkert morele paniek aan.”| Pointer
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis| www.afterbabel.com
Haidt’s concern for young people’s well-being is weirdly narrow: only the small fraction whose depression he blames on social media, and only those on campus he politically agrees with| mikemales.substack.com
Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.| www.afterbabel.com
The way some researchers use the GWP can explain why they fail to find effects of digital technology on youth mental health| www.afterbabel.com
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.| www.afterbabel.com
On a long drive home from visiting friends one recent sunny day, my partner and I listened to a progression of sugary pop songs.| shannonthrace.substack.com
Happiness used to be U-shaped by age, with middle age the least happy. Not anymore. Young people are now the least happy.| www.afterbabel.com
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.| www.afterbabel.com
Two major problems with a review in Nature| www.afterbabel.com
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.| www.afterbabel.com
Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends| www.afterbabel.com
It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.| www.afterbabel.com