What Jon Haidt thinks about Addiction
Social psychologist at NYU Stern, author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation. He writes at After Babel.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jon Haidt has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsLike any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 1st of 3 in this piece