Jonathan Haidt

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · An Honest Conversation About Looksmaxxing | Jonathan Haidt · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

So I'll just list.

I mean, I could spend an hour talking about this, but I'll just list.

Here are the different kinds of evidence that it's causal.

So first, there are now over 30 micro, we found 38, I think it is, experiments

where, you know, random control trial, you ask some people to get off social media, and then you see what happens to your mental health.

And overwhelmingly, they find benefits on, there's not a single measure where we found that it was harmful.

Yeah, but you know, I mean, the studies only go for a couple of weeks and there certainly isn't a sign of decay overall.

But sure, that's a theoretical possibility.

But then we also have the natural experiments.

What happens when high speed internet came into different areas in late 2000s and early 2010s, it came into like different parts of Canada or Spain or Germany or Italy.

I mean, it's a lot of studies, there are nine or 10 studies now that looked at that, at the staggered rollout.

What do they find?

My group and two totally different groups, all three of us, have looked at this set of studies.

We've all found the same thing.

When it came in, in the years after that, you get an increase in psychiatric admissions, especially for girls, girls and young women.

So that's another kind of causal evidence.

This is not just a correlation.

This is a quasi-experiment.

Yeah, young women.

That's what we're saying.

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