In his book "The Coddling of the American Mind", I understand that Jonathan Haidt proposes that its not phones which are causing anxiety, depression, etc, but the loss of activities that phone usage are replacing. Which means that although there may be correlation between phone usage and social / psychological disorders, the former may not cause the latter, but the latter caused by changing social habits.
In his book "The Coddling of the American Mind", I understand that Jonathan Haidt proposes that its not phones which are causing anxiety, depression, etc, but the loss of activities that phone usage are replacing. Which means that although there may be correlation between phone usage and social / psychological disorders, the former may not cause the latter, but the latter caused by changing social habits.