Joseph E Davis

Mental Health, Youth, Personhood, Ethics. Sociologist, UVA. Author: Chemically Imbalanced; Editor, The Evening of Life.

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

This insightful article disrupts a lot of facile assumptions about the situation of young men.

Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise, by @JohannKurtz https://t.co/ADS8lue8Ey

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

I have a little series going on my "New Discontents" blog at Psych Today. Last month I asked if we’re suffering a “narcissism epidemic.” Before that was a post on the role of social media as a resource for self-making. Now, I'm revisiting self-esteem and why parents and people in general believe it is so important (links to the previous pieces are at the end of this one).
@PsychToday

“Self-Esteem Will Get You Through” | Psychology Today https://t.co/zWmiXiPyON

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

In light of all the concern with social media, I have been writing a series on why people use it. Psychologists claim that social media use contributes to inflated egos and less concern with others. I think, in general, that is a misreading.
@PsychToday

s There Truly an Epidemic of Narcissism? | Psychology Today https://t.co/ca3GxW7zO9

[Carl Elliott @FearLoathingBTX]

"The prevalence of AI use on college campuses is a cancer on our culture that threatens to turn a generation of promising young Americans into a class of drooling morons, and it will grotesquely disfigure, if not destroy, the university." -- Owen Yingling

https://t.co/TlXrUrg51K

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To understand social media's much-discussed hold on people, start with the demanding task of being yourself.

Why Are We So Dependent on Social Media? | Psychology Today https://t.co/lEKThDZXfo

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From our representative survey of young men, 18-29: When asked if “being a man requires a willingness to sacrifice for others,” and whether “manhood involves strength, responsibility, and leadership,” 89% of young men endorse the first statement and 85% the second.
https://t.co/UTvDeWAs95
@AnthonyEsolen

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After the LA verdict, we've been hearing about "addiction by design." But for another angle on dependence, consider the demanding task of being yourself
@PsychToday

Why Are We So Dependent on Social Media? | Psychology Today https://t.co/lEKThDZXfo

[Carl Elliott @FearLoathingBTX]

This is a really disturbing practice. But the reporting is outstanding.

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This fine article has a bad title. The chatbot won't make you a monster, it will mislead: "But this is also why I think AI therapy is so dangerous; it offers a masquerade of care — something that looks like it cares, but really doesn’t care at all."

Chatbot therapy will make you a monster https://t.co/S6tKlHMQZl via @UnHerd

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

Our new report on young men is out.

We find that young men care about their status, want to contribute, and are distressed by the gap between their current circumstances and what they desire for their life. https://t.co/MmATDvFmlX

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

Let this sink in.
@drjcoleman

[Coleman Joshua PHD @drjcoleman]

Estrangement is old. But the way we think about it is new.

"Honor thy parents" became "protect my mental health."

Social media amplified this—two billion #toxicfamily posts, Reddit threads validating your perspective from strangers who don't know your parents.

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

A valuable observation from this fine article: "What strikes me most is the difference between people who’ve learned to construct what I call ‘containers for attention’ – bounded spaces and practices where different modes of engagement become possible – and those who haven’t. The distinction isn’t about intelligence or discipline. It’s about environmental architecture. Some people have learned to watch documentaries with a notebook, listen to podcasts during walks when their minds can wander productively, read physical books in deliberately quiet spaces with phones left behind. They’re not rejecting technology. They’re choreographing it."

What we think is a decline in literacy is a design problem – https://t.co/6bcFBWBxPv via @aeonmag

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

Not for the first time, people are predicting the demise of social media. But for that to be true, we have to ask: If there was a need for social media, has it disappeared?

@PsychToday
Is Social Media Dying? | Psychology Today https://t.co/7qEgklWSBr

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

Social media has been getting a lot of bad press. Is it changing the attitudes of parents and teens? I consider some evidence.
@PsychToday @pewresearch

Social Media and Mental Distress | Psychology Today https://t.co/IECT8dHa6L

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This is a terrific reflection on our predicament. The problem is not so much loneliness as feeling insignificant or invisible. We don't feel like we are seen or heard or matter to others.

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible – https://t.co/p9vXwNAEpM via @aeonmag

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A third reality contributing to grief's loneliness: dispersed or broken families that can limit the availability of conversation partners and the sharing of memories. 3/3

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Another reason for the loneliness of the grieving: the social pressure to always put on a happy face, what the social historian Philippe Ariès called the "moral duty" to appear "to be always happy, even if in the depths of despair." 2/3

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"It's such a lonely experience." These words come from a therapist I interviewed who counsel people in mourning. Among the reasons: avoidance due to discomfort or uncertainty. 1/3

@PsychToday
Why Grief Is So Lonely | Psychology Today https://t.co/MhGJf2NrRU

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

I pledged a paid subscription to Historically Thinking. This podcast is always insightful and interesting. Current discussion is on revolution. Timely!

https://t.co/QXcT99pQF5

[Joseph E Davis @Joseph_E_Davis5]

Here's a very good piece building off the Paul Tough article in the NT Times Magazine last month. We're up to 23 percent of 17-year-old boys having an ADHD diagnosis. @unherd @christophlane

ADHD medicine has failed boys @UnHerd https://t.co/54hIwiA6UJ