What Jonathan Haidt has said about The Anxious Generation
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 14, 2026
Jonathan Haidt, American social psychologist, professor at NYU Stern School of Business, and author of The Anxious Generation, has been quoted on The Anxious Generation once in 1 episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, most recently on September 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Haidt summarizes his book as arguing that children have been overprotected in the real world and underprotected online.
“we have overprotected our children in the real world where they need a huge amount of experience unsupervised. and we have underprotected them online”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: NYU Professor: Do This for 2 Weeks to Get Your Focus, Motivation, & Life Back (Sep 14, 2026) · Listen from 23:58
Episodes
NYU Professor: Do This for 2 Weeks to Get Your Focus, Motivation, & Life BackThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Sep 14, 2026 · 59 min
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tells Mel Robbins how quick dopamine from phones harms boys and girls differently and how to reclaim attention.
Others on The Anxious Generation
- Peter Gray · 1 quote
Jonathan Haidt on other topics
- Screen time rules for families · 6 quotes
- Social media and adolescent mental health · 5 quotes
- Crisis of boys and young men · 4 quotes
- Quick dopamine and attention · 4 quotes
- Executive function · 1 quote
- Meta youth mental health litigation · 1 quote
- Instagram · 1 quote