Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who studies moral reasoning and the effects of social media on development and democratic institutions. He is the author of books including The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and The Anxious Generation.

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3 predictions · 11 assertions · 10 opinions · 6 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 14 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 10 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jonathan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported

Haidt: 5% to 12% of boys become problematic video game users

“About five, depending on how you measure it, about five to 12% of the boys do get, do become problematic users of video games.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:03:42 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

288 words/min while actually speaking · 14 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jonathan Haidt: only 7 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 7 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 9,286 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said31 What others said13 Episodes1

Everything Jonathan Haidt said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Haidt: Immigrants from non-English speaking countries have better work ethic

“Immigrants who are from non-English speaking countries. That's right. They have a better work ethic.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:05:24 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Rapid tech changes threaten the survival of American liberal democracy

“The changes that are coming to us because of tech are so earth-shattering and so fast that they are changing the basic conditions of America's liberal democracy in ways that I think it may not survive.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 6:00 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt compares shift to algorithmic social media to shift from heroin to fentanyl

“Just as like the move from heroin to fentanyl kills lots and lots of people, because fentanyl is so incredibly concentrated, the move from television to algorithm-driven social media, where It's not just like mass marketed, we think this show, you know, Nielse…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 7:58 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Social media is wildly inappropriate for minors

“Social media is wildly inappropriate for minors. It's full of extreme sex, violence you know, men from all over the world reaching out to you because they want sex.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 30:15 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Gen Z is less ambitious, successful, happy, and competent

“They're less ambitious, they're less successful, they're less happy, they're less competent.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 31:49 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Tolerating campus intimidation caused massive brand destruction of elite higher ed

“So that was the precedent that was set, and that, I believe, was the beginning of one of the greatest brand destructions in American history. Higher ed used to have one of the greatest brands in the world. Elite higher ed was the envy of the world. Now it's a …”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 35:34 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Disclosure

Haidt: The political left is beyond hope after years of trying to advise them

“I spent so many years trying to help the left using moral psychology so that they would stop losing elections, and I finally decided they're beyond hope.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 43:55 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster

“Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster. I mean, it always descends into, Chaos and economic chaos and cruelty.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 50:29 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Most NYU students using TikTok wish it was never invented

“How many of you use TikTok or one of those programs at least once a week? The great, not everybody, but the great majority of hands go up. How many of you wish that it was never invented? The great majority of hands go up.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 11:15 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Millennials had in-person childhoods on flip phones unlike Gen Z

“The difference between the millennials and Gen Z is that the millennials went through puberty on flip phones and they actually, and they used those phones to meet up with each other, and they saw each other, and they got together in person, they made eye conta…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 18:52 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Insight

Haidt: Believing the three 'great untruths' makes young people anxious and depressed

“The central idea of the coddling was that there are three great untruths, ideas that are so bad that if any young person believes all three, they're almost certain to be depressed, anxious not amount to much in life.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 39:49 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Social media super-empowers political extremes while silencing the center

“And so the far left becomes super empowered, the far right becomes super empowered, and the center left and the center right go silent, and that's what I think is, you know, that's, I think, a real disaster for our country,”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 52:26 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: Far-left progressive activists are illiberal and focus on tearing down top

“The progressive activists, which is the group on the furthest left, they were never liberal. In fact, they're really illiberal. They're not even about bringing up the bottom. They're much more focused on pulling down the top.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 55:04 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: The Republican Party has been gutted of its moderates

“The Republican Party has been gutted of its moderates.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 56:23 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Children mostly overcome phone and video game withdrawal within a week

“You take away the video games, you take away the phones, and for, you know, Anna Lemke says it's, you know, two or three weeks to overcome, ah, withdrawal symptoms for, especially for more serious drugs, but in my experience, it's more like, it's like a few da…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:02:03 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Insight

Haidt: Never send children to summer camps that permit smartphones

“And never send your child to a camp that allows kids to keep phones on them.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:02:32 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Haidt: Heavy video game usage prevents boys from developing social skills

“And these are boys who are spending You know, three, 4:05 hours a day on video games for years and years and years. They don't develop social skills. They don't develop dating skills.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:03:59 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Admissions and hiring will prioritize signs of independent childhood resilience

“College admissions and hiring is not just gonna go for the high GPA and the full resume of extracurricular activities. They're gonna go for signs of being a free range kid. They're going to go for signs that you traveled alone, you traveled on your own for thr…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 1:10:52 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Opinion

Haidt: TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels are uniquely horrible

“TikTok and then YouTube shorts are the ones copying it you know, Instagram reels. They're uniquely horrible.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 10:29 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Insight

Haidt: Adolescents would trade future years of life for immediate social status

“Adolescents are, they, you know, they would gladly do something that knocked a few years off of their life at the end of their life if they could be more popular today.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 14:24 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Young people seek success through social media followers over value creation

“Where I speak to young people, they come to ask me for advice on how to be successful, and some of them have not even thought about what they can do that would be of worth to anyone. All they're focused on is how to get more followers.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 25:09 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Businesses began rolling back progressive initiatives by 2022

“Businesses have to actually make money, and so by 20, 22, a lot of businesses were rolling it back. They're saying, whoa, this stuff is terrible. This is not making life better for members of minorities. This is actually just turning everyone against everyone.…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 46:13 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Haidt: Personality traits and political leanings are partly heritable

“Almost everything about our personality is partly heritable, and if you have an identical twin separated at birth, you never met, but if you're very much on the left, your twin probably is too. Something about our brains make us predisposed to the right or the…”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 48:44 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

Insight

Haidt: Conservatism in every era is a reaction to left-wing excesses

“Conservatism in every era is a reaction to the excesses of the left.”

Jonathan Haidt Jul 10, 2024 ▶ 54:07 Jonathan Haidt: How to Help the Anxious Generation | The All-In Interview

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Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 4 David Friedberg 4 Chris Williamson 2 Rand Paul 1 Bill Gurley 1

Statements about Jonathan Haidt, by other people (1)

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Friedberg: Beyond basic needs, rate of progress predicts happiness, not absolute income

“Beyond that standard of living, once you're able to get food and housing and all the things you need to survive and thrive, what predicted happiness was how much things changed from year to year.”

David Friedberg Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 11:11 Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami