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The Mental Health Crisis Has Hit Millennials
Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad For Democracy
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Jean M. Twenge
159
The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 2: The Nordic Nations
For Teens, Scandinavia is No Longer The Happiest Place On Earth.
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Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
75
Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media and Mental Illness
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.
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Jon Haidt
207
Do the Kids Think They’re Alright?
It’s hard to find members of Gen Z who think their phone-based childhoods benefitted their generation
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Jon Haidt
 and 
Eli George
125
The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 1: The Anglosphere
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
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Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
181
Academic Pressure Cannot Explain the Mental Illness Epidemic
It’s not the homework. It’s the phones.
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Jean M. Twenge
114
The Case for Phone-Free Schools (updated links)
The research is clear: Smartphones undermine attention, learning, relationships, and belonging.
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Jon Haidt
34
After Babel
After Babel
Using moral psychology to explain why so much is going wrong
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