Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jan 2026
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The teachers say it.
The experiments say it.
The correlations.
And meta.
I mean, my God, the data they have on harm is astonishing.
So that's why I think it's important to separate the two questions.
In science and social science, we're very careful about causality.
We have to be certain about causality before we say X caused Y. And so I can't say that I'm certain that social media caused the big increase in 2012, but I can say I am 99.9% confident at this point that social media is hurting kids by the millions.
I would say close to zero for this reason.
The whole key to solving this problem, the reason we didn't solve it for so long, is that it's a series of collective action traps.
And I'm a social psychologist.
What we do for a living is we look at the ways that we influence each other.
And there are certain situations where, you know, yeah, I don't want to give my 10-year-old a phone, but, you know, everyone else has one.
She's being left out.
So...
The phones and social media, all these things, they put us in a trap, and so we feel we have to give in.
And so since that's the situation, I can't blame the people.
My rule as a social psychologist, if one person does something really bad, that might be a bad person.
If everybody in a situation is doing something bad, that's guaranteed to be a bad situation.
So, no, I don't blame – I mean, look, of course, parents should stand up and – but look, so many of us are trying, and it's really, really hard.
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