A world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture, and 120 acres of Ozark forest with five miles of trails. Admission to the museum is always free.
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Join us for a conversation with Jonathan Haidt, author of the acclaimed book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.
A social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures. The author’s goal is to help people understand each other, live and work near each other, and even learn from each other despite their moral differences.
Since 2018, Haidt has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health. His most recent book, The Anxious Generation, explores how in the early 2010s there were two major interlocking changes to childhood: the loss of the play-based childhood and rise of the phone-based childhood. This talk will outline what happened, what’s at risk, and most importantly, what we can do to reverse these trends.
Tickets are $15 ($10 for members), reserve your spot online or with Guest Experience at (479) 657-2335 today.
Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught for 16 years in the department of psychology at the University of Virginia.
Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures—including the cultures of progressive, conservatives, and libertarians. His goal is to help people understand each other, live and work near each other, and even learn from each other despite their moral differences. Haidt has co-founded a variety of organizations and collaborations that apply moral and social psychology toward that end, including HeterodoxAcademy.org, The Constructive Dialogue Institute, and EthicalSystems.org.
Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and of The New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (co-authored with Greg Lukianoff). He has written more than 100 academic articles, which have been cited nearly 100,000 times. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the world’s “Top 50 Thinkers.” He has given four TED talks.
Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. His next book is The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. It was published by Penguin Press on March 26, 2024.
