As of May, 26 states have passed laws regulating cell phone usage in schools, and 17 of them did so in 2025, according to the ...

The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into ...

Jonathan Haidt is associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the psychological bases of morality across different cultures and political ideology. He ...

Jonathan Haidt: He Knows Why We Fight. Conservative or liberal, our moral instincts are shaped by evolution to strengthen 'us' against 'them.' By . Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Share. Resize.

So I asked Haidt, an admirer of Seligman’s work, about the psychology of happiness, which was the subject of Haidt’s 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.

Jonathan Haidt delivering the 2017 Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute, Nov. 15: Today’s identity politics . . . teaches the exact opposite of what we think a liberal arts education ...

Why Jonathan Haidt Is ‘Wildly Optimistic’ About Gen Z. The social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation” talks about how to combat the toll of smartphones and social media.

You may remember that Haidt, a professor at NYU and the author of the bestselling book The Anxious Generation, was a part of our "Life You Want" class on the teenage mental health crisis last year.