Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Of course it's multifactorial.
So people sometimes accuse me of saying, Heitz says that 100% of it was caused by smartphones.
And every kid who, of course not, I'm a social scientist.
What I'm trying to understand is when you get a generational change, a historical change in the averages from going up to going down, this is a global emergency.
Yeah, this is a great example of what we were talking about before about how you sort of change the environment in which we live and all kinds of weird stuff happens.
So elementary school for most kids is fun.
It was fun for my kids.
It was fun for me, I remember.
And then you hit middle school and it's awful.
Not for everybody, but it's really different.
And because you're leaving the world of just pure play and you're entering suddenly
You're entering a period and where everybody is now evaluating everybody else and themselves, where do I fit?
And now you have very gendered status hierarchies.
Because it's at this point, I mean, I remember in elementary school, it was already the case that the cool, like the socially prestige, the dominant boys were the good athletes.
It was that simple.
If you're a good athlete, you're high.
By middle school, it is still very much, it's physical dominance.
For girls, it's looks and also social centeredness.
Who knows whose secrets?
Who's the girl that is sort of the center of things?
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