Jonathan Haidt on how tech can change social media and save democracy (Part 2)
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The Mental Health Curbs for Girls
Research shows that if you take up smoking, your friends are more likely to take up smoking. And i think itwas the same thing with the obesity. But here's the relevant for us now, same with happiness and sadne. Same with emotions. And it's more contagious from girls, from women, i should say, than from men. When a man is depressed, it doesn't make other people depressed, because men don't talk about it. Whereas if a woman is depressed, she's more likely to talk about it, and so that'll spread more. I've never seen anything like it. The rates of anxiety and depression just sky. It's like dum to dump
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