Anxious Generation: how to tackle a mental health pandemic

Radio Davos

Mar 12, 2025•24 min•Season 1Ep. 193

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In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt says there is clear evidence that giving children smart phones with addictive social media has caused a mental health pandemic.

The NYU-Stern social psychologist, who also wrote The Happiness Hypothesis, spoke to us at the Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos.

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