How to Prevent an Anxious Generation

January 18, 2024
09:00–09:30 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

From the advent of smartphone apps to novel incentive structures on social media, the latest technological advances mark a change in the nature of childhood in recent years, removing limits to screen time and impacting time for play and face-to-face conversations. What steps are needed to tackle emerging harms for children and young adults and reverse the trend of a growing anxious...
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Speakers

NF
Nita Farahany
Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Philosophy; Director, Duke Science and Society
Duke University
AG
Adam Grant
Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
TS
Tali Sharot
Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London (UCL)

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