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A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
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Freya India
108
The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
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Zach Rausch
63
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness
Two major problems with a review in Nature
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Jon Haidt
168
How to Delay the Age at Which Kids Get Smartphones
A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think.
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Melanie Hempe
98
Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation
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Jean M. Twenge
58

March 2024

It’s Time To Free The Anxious Generation
The book comes out today. By the end of 2025, we will roll back the phone-based childhood.
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Jon Haidt
 and 
Zach Rausch
77
Why Kids Need Summer Camp
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis
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Steve Baskin
45

February 2024

Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
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Mariana Brussoni
91
Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation is a Red Herring
Those senate hearings were conducted within the “numb stance of the technological idiot”
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Jon Haidt
100

January 2024

The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.
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Zach Rausch
, 
Thomas Potrebny
, and 
Jon Haidt
55
A Video Preview of The Anxious Generation for Educators and Legislators
How you can help to end the youth mental health crisis
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Jon Haidt
60
The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset (The GBD)
Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends
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Zach Rausch
29
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