Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- March 19, 2024
- Duration
- 2h 1m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist, professor, and author. His latest book, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness," will be available March 26. www.jonathanhaidt.com
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Narrator
otherJonathan Haidt
guestJoe Rogan
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Jonathan Haidt, Joe Rogan Experience #2121 - Jonathan Haidt explores smartphones, social media, and how childhood got dangerously rewired worldwide Joe Rogan and psychologist Jonathan Haidt discuss Haidt’s book *The Anxious Generation* and the sharp rise in youth anxiety, depression, and social dysfunction since the early 2010s. Haidt argues that a rapid “phone-based childhood” replaced free play and real-world independence, with girls hit hardest by social media and boys by gaming and porn. They separate two problems: kids’ mental health versus broader threats to democracy, including TikTok’s national-security risks, bots, algorithmic outrage, and institutional capture. Haidt proposes four cultural norms and collective action by parents and schools to largely reverse the youth mental health crisis within a few years, even without waiting for tech companies or Congress.
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