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Davos 2024: How to Prevent an Anxious Generation
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Davos 2024: How to Prevent an Anxious Generation

Agenda Dialogues · Robin Pomeroy

January 18, 202430m 16s

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Show Notes

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 generation? This session was recorded live January 18, 2024 as part of the 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Speakers:

Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (UCL)

Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law and Philosophy; Director, Duke Science and Society, Duke University

Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/how-to-prevent-an-anxious-generation/

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