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Live From the Comedy Cellar: Comedy, Free Speech, and Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been So Uniquely Stupid with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

The Psychology Podcast

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Is Social Media Harmful for Girls?

I feel fortunate that I'm an older member of Gen Z that wasn't really like when I was 12, I was on Twitter. When you zoom in on social media for girls between 11 and 13, it's much, much larger. The point is girls go through puberty first around 11 to 13. That's the age when they're most damaged by this. Even if you're just poking forward to you doing something, everyone's comparing themselves to everyone else. And we've got sort of a theme in our brains. It's called the, what's in the sociometer. It measures how am I doing? And if you see everyone else, it's one of the parties they

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