New pod: A debate and discussion with about
- why teen sadness is rising
- the roots of modern anxiety
- how social media builds a kingdom of high-arousal negativity in our minds
- the philosophy of happiness
This is a really good one.
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We spend some time talking about this 2019 paper, which I still think is the best study on social media:
web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/rese
When ppl were paid to leave FB, researchers found:
1. Socializing went up
2. News knowledge and polarization went down
3. Well-being went up
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Rising teen sadness has 3 big factors and many small ones, per
1) "play deprivation" before 13
2) smartphones as "experience blockers," displacing pro-social experiences (eg, youth sports)
3) too-early entry to social media, for girls esp
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The more I think about clinical psychology vs what the Internet does to our minds, the more I think Online News Discourse really is like a kind of drug, an attention alcohol, that is driving many people to sorrow, anxiety, or worse.
Quote from the ep—>
open.spotify.com/episode/0AsDqp
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Something really important and alarming is happening, and we need to figure it out. Listen to the full episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/0AsDqp
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There is one other piece that’s hard to discuss but real: decline in sexual activity
We know 15 - 25 year olds are having less volume & fewer partners
I haven’t seen the data but I *strongly suspect* Gen X is having less vs ppl in their 40s in 1995
Screens impact everyone
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the weird thing is that CDC studies ask about sexual activity and show that the least anxious/sad demographic is HS boys who haven't had sex
the sexual active bisexual demo is the most sad
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Do you think locking them down for over two years had anything to do with it?
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