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Anxious teens: Are they working too hard in school?

Dropping SAT/ACT requirements at elite colleges could make ambitious teenagers even more anxious, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. ...

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TikTok sets limits for teens as mental health worries grow

Social media is a major cause of the mental illness epidemic in teen girls, argues social psychologist Jon Haidt. Fifty-seven percent of...

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Young, liberal and depressed: Doomers are not OK

Liberals are the most depressed among the growing number of sad teenagers, writes Matthew Yglesias on Slow Boring. Teenage girls are...

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Sad girls: Social isolation predates Covid

Fifty-seven percent of teenage girls felt "persistently sad or hopeless" in 2021, reports the Centers for Disease Control. That's double...

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Happy days: Connect, care about others, cope

Happy people are kind to others and to themselves, says Laurie Santos. The Yale psychology professor is offering a free, six-week course,...

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Home alone

Americans are socializing a lot less, staying home alone a lot more, writes economist Bryce Ward in the Washington Post. That's true for...

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Topless teens

More transgender and gender-neutral teenagers are having "top surgery" -- double mastectomies -- to make their bodies conform with their...