The Anxious Generation (2024) attributes increased mental distress in Generation Z to smartphones and overprotective parenting, causing social deprivation and attention fragmentation. Grounded in psychological and biological research, this eye-opening book explores how the profound shift from play-based to phone-based childhoods has disrupted adolescent development, causing social deprivation and attention fragmentation.
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago and in India. Haidt, author of influential books like The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the American Mind, was named a top global thinker by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines. He taught at the University of Virginia for 16 years before joining NYU-Stern in 2011.