Jonathan Haidt and Kirstie Allsopp on The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His research examines the 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). In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction, and The Anxious Generation (2024) has come out of this research.

Kirstie Allsopp is best known as a property expert and co presenter of Location, Location, Location and Love it or List it. For 25 years she has been guiding us up and down the property ladder with her extensive knowledge of how to buy, sell and renovate our homes. Over the past 10 years she’s invigorated the world of crafting, inspiring us to try our hand at new skills with a special focus on Christmas crafts in the unmissable Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas. Kirstie gives a great deal of time to various charities, promoting the work of Home-Start UK and Keep Britain Tidy. She’s also a longtime supporter of Comic Relief and Cancer Research.

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