Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency
Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.
Quillette
· 1 min read
mental health
A collection of 42 posts
The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated
The logic of the status game dictates that humiliation must be uniquely catastrophic.
Will Storr
· 15 min read
The Creeping Orthodoxy of the Neurodiversity Movement
Neurodiversity is on the right track, and I support the agenda as it builds upon the civil rights movement.
Bill Williams
· 9 min read
The Victims’ Race
Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 10 min read
My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough
Discussions today around Gen Z’s mental health occlude this possibility of a lack of adversity in our daily lives.
Freya India
· 11 min read
Time to Stop Using Suicide For Political Point-Scoring
The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men
From genes to hormones to neurotransmitters, plays a role in shaping men’s masculine self-expression is, to say the least, a scientifically untenable position.
Gregory Gorelik
· 12 min read
Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys
Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,
Quillette
· 19 min read
In Defense of Male Stoicism
Endless articles and innumerable campaigns have been devoted to helping men cry, ending the phrase “man up” and, above all, getting men to talk.
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
What is Mindfulness? Nobody Really Knows, and That's a Problem
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
Nicholas T Van Dam and Nick Haslam
· 5 min read
Policing Takes a Toll on Officers Too
Police organizations had better start to pay more attention to the psychological health of these men and women who serve.
John Violanti
· 5 min read
The Paradox of Female Happiness
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read