🎙️Screen Sense - new podcast with me and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social, is launching next week! Two psychologists (and dads) talking honestly about what it means to raise a family in a screen-filled world - with science, real stories and zero guilt. Launching 13th June. screensensepodcast.substack.com

05.06.2025 18:22 — 👍 31    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

We’re back to the “hundreds of psychological studies cannot all be wrong, educate yourself”-stage of discourse.

I recommend that onlookers to this discourse pick some of the cited studies & see how compelling they find them, wrt causal identification & strength of statistical evidence.>

19.05.2025 06:19 — 👍 134    🔁 22    💬 9    📌 4

But their origin does not change that they are underspecified. They allow for many interpretations and no way of knowing what people agreed to.

Some positive aspects: increase in mental health, social connectedness, support, coping, exploration of self and interests, access to information

19.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The use of „can“ in formulating the causal claims makes it quite hard to disagree. Smartphones can impair mental health, but the actual debate is whether they do so more than not. Esp. since the majority of experts actually think effects are context dependent

A shame no positive effects are asked..

16.05.2025 10:59 — 👍 37    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis There are twenty-four hours in a day. This isn’t a matter of political opinion or technological disruption—it’s as immutable as the fact that two plus two equals four. No amount of geni…

Take the time to read this important analysis. We are in exactly the situation that laws, Constitutin and basic common sense should prevent. And yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

06.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 1347    🔁 518    💬 79    📌 62

There's a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends: addicts Martha Gill Ditching hanging out for isolated scrolling on our sofas is a dangerous habit that warrants help on a par with gambling Guardian article by Martha Gill

Counterpoint: No, there isn't

But sure, let's randomly assign incredibly loaded clinical diagnoses onto individuals who may have many valid reasons for not wanting to engage in-person with people, particularly ones who make damning evidence-free judgements of others and share them in a newspaper

25.01.2025 22:38 — 👍 463    🔁 99    💬 24    📌 14

a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " do you know " in the background ALT: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " do you know " in the background

Words like ‘increase’, ‘decrease’ or ‘reduce’ imply that there was a manipulation or change over time

Phrases like ‘less than’ and ‘more than’ and words like ‘higher’ and 'lower’ imply a comparison

Sometimes you just mean 'high' or 'low'

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

12.12.2024 19:53 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping? In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success.
www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

10.12.2024 13:44 — 👍 64    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 8

Thanks Andy! In @theatlantic.bsky.social I describe why the panic over smartphones is more likely to distract from than solve the problems that young people are facing today. Gift link is below:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

21.11.2024 20:37 — 👍 46    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 3

Incredible! Could also work well for counseling

20.11.2024 06:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Boston psychiatrist weighs in on the Mass. TikTok lawsuit and digital wellness The co-founder of Boston Children's Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders, Dr. Michael Tsappis joins Radio Boston to talk about digital wellness.

Despite the dominant narrative, I really can't stress this enough. Whether we're talking about yourself or your kids:

YOU

ARE

NOT

*ADDICTED*

TO

YOUR

PHONE!

And we need to stop saying otherwise

www.wbur.org/radiobo...
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12.11.2024 15:31 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 2