A new book says modern schooling, not phones, are behind youth mental health declines. Will anyone listen?

There was a time when "playing with friends" didn't require checking three family calendars, texting four parents, figuring out who was driving, and setting a pickup time. You just went outside. Maybe ...

Computers, video games, and the internet actually helped "restore childhood" in the 1990s, suggests psychologist Peter Gray in a new book. Then changes to our education system reversed those gains.

Children are like trees, only more trouble. Winds that bend young trees expand the tree’s roots on the windward side, firmly anchoring the tree. And winds strengthen the wood on the other side by ...

Author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the perils of deploying AI tools in elementary school and says the attorneys general lawsuit against Meta in California could dramatically ...

Every day at 3:16 p.m., I get a phone call from my son’s school. On the other end is awkward and heavy breathing and an, “um …” followed by a question about minutiae from my 9-year-old along the lines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK CITY — Before last year, Jonathan Haidt was already a well-known social psychologist. He had been inducted into the ...

Prof. HAIDT: Well, I can - I guess I can give you about 20 percent of the psychology of reasoning with two words - that is, confirmation bias. It refers to the fact that we humans are extraordinarily ...

Jonathan Haidt, author of the 2012 best-seller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, co-founded a network of academics committed to open inquiry and viewpoint ...