Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation. Since 2018 Haidt has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. In the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024) he brings to light the “great rewiring of childhood” in which play-based childhood has been replaced by phone-based childhood. In 2025, Haidt co-authored The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World with Catherine Price. Haidt continues to promote reforms that would address the youth mental health crisis through his fiscally sponsored 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, The TAG Movement. Haidt’s earlier research examined the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), and of The New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012), and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks and been named a TIME100 Health leader.