282: Jonathan Haidt: The making of an anxious generation

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, The Anxious Generation. Jonathan and Brendan discuss how smartphones, overprotective parents and a lack of real-world interaction are doing serious damage to the young.

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2:25.0	dms and stuff that's not really human contact that's strategic it's it's
2:30.1	superficial it's disembodied it's almost as if you took plants and just ripped them out of the soil
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