Jonathan Haidt

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899 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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

And getting scarier, I suppose.

Well...

You know, each of our lives are not really made up by what's going on in the world.

You know, our happiness and our engagement is really very local.

And I'm just really blessed to live in a great place.

I love living in New York.

I'm working with a great team.

We're working on this big problem of how to restore childhood.

So if I seem relaxed, I'm not really relaxed, but I am pretty engaged these days.

So I'm gonna play the role, I'm a social psychologist who also loves evolution and anthropology.

I love looking at what is human nature?

How does it vary?

And our environments have changed gradually over thousands of years, but all of a sudden things are changing so quickly.

that a lot of our evolved systems that evolved for life in the physical real world, they're wildly malfunctioning in this virtual world.

Oh, sure.

Okay, so let's start right in with the biggest area of all, which is relationships.

You know, originally, everyone said, you know, social media, oh, you know, you can connect to everybody.

You can have thousands of friends.

And when I started this campaign two years ago to roll back the phone-based childhood and raise the age for social media to 16, people were like, oh, but it's how they connect.

It's how they find friendship.

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