Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK CITY — Before last year, Jonathan Haidt was already a well-known social psychologist. He had been inducted into the ...

Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author of "The Anxious Generation," says mounting concerns over social media's impact on children have hit a "turning point." Speaking Thursday on FOX ...

Both Peter Gray and Jonathan Haidt believe that children are over-supervised in childhood. But they differ on phones ...

'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt has been a bestseller PEOPLE: Are you surprised by the success of your book? HAIDT: I knew the book would be successful because whenever I mentioned I was ...

Every day at 3:16 p.m., I get a phone call from my son’s school. On the other end is awkward and heavy breathing and an, “um …” followed by a question about minutiae from my 9-year-old along the lines ...

Last month the UK Government said it will ban under-16s from social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, ...

Prof. HAIDT: Well, I can - I guess I can give you about 20 percent of the psychology of reasoning with two words - that is, confirmation bias. It refers to the fact that we humans are extraordinarily ...

Adolescence, the Netflix miniseries, presents a terrible possibility—that a seemingly “good” kid in a normal English town, with two well-meaning parents, could be drawn so far down the poisoned well ...

Happiness is arguably one of the most important goals in life. It can also feel like one of the most elusive, perhaps because people are chasing the wrong things. But there is a way to lasting ...

NEW YORK CITY — Before last year, Jonathan Haidt was already a well-known social psychologist. He had been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, had given four TED talks, and his ...