Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He studies social media’s contributions to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. The author of “The Happiness Hypothesis” and “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt’s latest book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” highlights the replacement of play-based childhood with a phone-based childhood. He has also written over 100 academic articles which have been cited nearly 100,000 times. A 2019 inductee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Haidt was named one of the world’s Top 50 Thinkers by Prospect Magazine.
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