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Rona Novick

Dean Emerita, Yeshiva University · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dr. Rona Novick served as Dean of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School from 2014 to 2024. A clinical psychologist specializing in child development and social-emotional learning, she created the BRAVE anti-bullying program and authored multiple parenting books.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 3 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 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 Rona argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Novick: Research shows digital communication fosters disinhibition and cruelty
“Extensive research shows that people are disinhibited on the internet, they are disinhibited in a technological way of communicating, and they are their worst selves, so that people are meaner, they are more cruel”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 32:05 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In

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Everything Rona Novick said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Novick: Society cannot wait for causal proof before protecting youth from tech
“There really was a significant body of research pointing to The challenges and potential danger, dangers, and I don't think we need to wait for more science. I think, you know, we don't let children play with knives. We don't wait till we find out what happens…”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 55:14 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Opinion
Novick: Tech companies prioritize profit by building gambling-like apps for teens
“Many of them who make technology for young people do not have young people's mental health, Or growth or learning as their bottom line. They have profits. So they create technology that is Very much like gambling, that sets up the same behavioral consequences …”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 16:11 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Opinion
Novick: Tech industry wants consumers, not educated consumers
“We haven't raised a generation of parents to be educated consumers, and quite frankly, the technology marketplace is not interested in educated consumers. It's just interested in consumers.”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 26:56 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Novick: Failing to protect youth from AI will lead to tragedies
“If we as parents and as educators and as technology purveyors don't create some protection for young people who, by the way, cannot necessarily make the distinction or blur the distinction between what is real and what is fantasy, then we are going to have mor…”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 32:27 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Insight
Novick: Monitoring children online is legitimate public oversight, not spying
“If they're online, they're in public space and they need to know that. And you need to know that. And it shouldn't be, I'm spying on you. It should be, I'm overseeing you for the benefit of that, because I know more than you do, and I can help you make good an…”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 39:26 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Insight
Novick: Overprotective parenting drives youth anxiety alongside technology
“Technology is not the only culprit in creating a generation of anxious children. It's overprotective parents who feel That their child can't ever experience a negative feeling and certainly not a negative feeling about them as parents.”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 40:05 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Opinion
Novick: Pandemic impact on child development was universal, not an outlier
“It's not only not an outlier, I'd say it's universal. The pandemic really impacted all aged children.”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 4:58 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Novick: Educators say returning students are two years behind developmentally
“What we heard over and over again from educators was that the students are two years behind where they should be once schools opened. And it's not just two years behind academically. It's two years behind socially. It's two years behind emotionally and their a…”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 5:36 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
Assertion Supported
Novick: Research shows digital communication fosters disinhibition and cruelty
“Extensive research shows that people are disinhibited on the internet, they are disinhibited in a technological way of communicating, and they are their worst selves, so that people are meaner, they are more cruel”
Rona Novick Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 32:05 What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In Dec 26, 2024 17m
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