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SUMMARY:Nonfiction Book Discussion Group: THE ANXIOUS GENERATION
DESCRIPTION:The Nonfiction Book Club meets the first Monday of each month 
 at 7 PM. Registration is not required.  Just read the book and join us for 
 the discussion.  Note: We always love hearing from new people with 
 different perspectives\, and we promise not to bite. \n\nThis month's book 
 is:\n\nThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused 
 an Epidemic of Mental Illness\nBy Jonathan Haidt   \n\nAfter more than a 
 decade of stability or improvement\, the mental health of adolescents 
 plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression\, anxiety\, self-harm\, and 
 suicide rose sharply\, more than doubling on many measures. Why?\n\nIn The 
 Anxious Generation\, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts 
 about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the 
 same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood\, including why 
 children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent\, 
 thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to 
 decline in the 1980s\, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of 
 the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a 
 dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has 
 interfered with children’s social and neurological development\, covering 
 everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation\, addiction\, 
 loneliness\, social contagion\, social comparison\, and perfectionism. He 
 explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have 
 been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world\, with 
 disastrous consequences for themselves\, their families\, and their 
 societies.\n\nMost important\, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He 
 diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us\, and then 
 proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that 
 parents\, teachers\, schools\, tech companies\, and governments can take to 
 end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane 
 childhood.\n\nHaidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in 
 the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and 
 religion\, campuses battling culture wars\, and now the public health 
 emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about 
 protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of 
 a phone-based life.\n\n \n\nAbout the Author\n\nJonathan Haidt is the 
 Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's 
 Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from 
 the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and then did post-doctoral research 
 at the University of Chicago and in Orissa\, India. He taught at the 
 University of Virginia for 16 years before moving to NYU-Stern in 2011. He 
 was named one of the "top global thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine\, and 
 one of the "top world thinkers" by Prospect magazine.\n\nHis research 
 focuses on morality - its emotional foundations\, cultural variations\, and 
 developmental course. He began his career studying the negative moral 
 emotions\, such as disgust\, shame\, and vengeance\, but then moved on to 
 the understudied positive moral emotions\, such as admiration\, awe\, and 
 moral elevation. He is the co-developer of Moral Foundations theory\, and 
 of the research site YourMorals.org. He is a co-founder of 
 HeterodoxAcademy.org\, which advocates for viewpoint diversity in higher 
 education. He uses his research to help people understand and respect the 
 moral motives of their enemies (see CivilPolitics.org\, and see his TED 
 talks). He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth 
 in Ancient Wisdom\; The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by 
 Politics and Religion\; and (with Greg Lukianoff) The Coddling of the 
 American Mind: How good intentions and bad ideas are setting a generation 
 up for failure. For more information see www.JonathanHaidt.com.\n\n
LOCATION:Community Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Hoelzer":MAILTO:jhoelzer@smfpl.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Jennifer Hoelzer":MAILTO:jhoelzer@smfpl.org
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