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The Disembodied Disconnect Hypothesis: How Online Interactions Undermine Neurobiological Foundations of Social Cohesion

2024-06-11

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<p>In his book “The Anxious Generation”, Jonathan Haidt suggests that digital technologies are rewiring children's brains and causing a mental illness epidemic. However, as noted by different colleagues, this claim is not supported by scientific evidence. In general, most available data are correlational, and when researchers find causal effects, they are small or inconclusive. As the debate on the neurodevelopmen...

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Literature Corpus work: 9d622516-6820-5893-a49d-49bb24e6e61c
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/wpny5

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