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Presented by UCSB Arts & LecturesThe Anxious Generation
JONATHAN HAIDT
THU, 20 FEB 2025 at 07:30PM PST
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 06:30PM
OnSale: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 at 10:00AM PDT
Announcement: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 at 09:00AM PDT
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones and social media and describes steps that parents, schools, tech companies and governments can take to restore a more humane childhood.
“The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, has been catastrophic, especially for girls.” The New York Times
“His common-sense recommendations for actions are excellent.” The Washington Post
Jonathan Haidt discusses why Gen Z (born after 1995) has such extraordinary rates of mental illness. He explains how their loss of independence and free play in the 1990s combined with the move to a fully phone-based childhood in the early 2010s to cause a collapse of mental health. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison and perfectionism. Most importantly, Haidt issues a clear call to action, proposing four simple rules that might end this epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arlington Theatre, 1317 State Street,Santa Barbara, California, United States
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