UMNE SCI Studio presents: Digital Childhood and the Generation of Anxiety – Insights from Jonathan Haidt

American social psychologist and professor at New York University, Jonathan Haidt, warns that we are in the midst of the largest unintended social experiment in human history. Children have been moved from a world in which they evolved to learn, play, and build resilience into a virtual space for which their brains are not biologically prepared. The consequences of this experiment are now visible across the globe. In his book The Anxious Generation (2024), Haidt synthesizes decades of research...