# Amy Orben
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amy orben is a British experimental psychologist who is a group leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Her research considers how digital technologies impact adolescent mental health. Orben was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize in 2021.
It’s Not Social Media, Life Is Just Worse
Everyone’s worried about social media and mental health. Jonathan
Haidt sold two million copies telling us smartphones rewired our
children’s brains. Thirty-five US states passed phone restriction
legislation off the back of it. But when you look at the research—really
look—the evidence for social …
Teen Screen Time May Not Be Harmful-Reprise
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/iRn033adAuY
The debate continues! The latest multi-country study of nearly 18,000 kids in England, Ireland, and the US analyzed the effect of screen time on adolescent well-being. When the data were tabulated, no negative effects could be found.
The Universit…
Teen Screen Time May Not Be Harmful
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/CbOcuLIEkkw
The debate continues! The latest multi-country study of nearly 18,000 kids in England, Ireland, and the US analyzed the effect of screen time on adolescent well-being. When the data were tabulated, no negative effects could be found.
The University of Oxfor…
Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation Revisited: What We Know in 2026
Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation hit shelves in March 2024, arguing that smartphones and social media broke teen mental health starting around 2012. Two years later, the book is either treated as gospel or dismissed as moral panic. Neither framing is quite right. This episode cuts throu…
What’s the recommended screen limit for young children – and why?
Potential screen time benefits for children must be weighed against the risks, says Amy Orben. Read the article on BOLD.
Stay up to date with the latest research on child learning and development at boldscience.org.Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Bluesky.Subscrib…
S8 Ep2: Measuring Teen Mental Health Across 12 Nations - a Mind the Kids podcast
In this episode of Mind the Kids, Clara Faria is joined by Dr. Ariadna Albajara-Saenz and Dr. Amirah Wahdi to discuss adolescent mental health in low- and middle-income countries, drawing on findings from a major cross-country study published in JCPP Advances.
The conversation explores mental he…
The UK is considering a social media ban for teens A Cambridge professor warns it could backfire
The UK government is currently conducting a major consultation and a series of real-world trials to determine if it should ban social media for teenagers under 16. While the proposal aims to protect children from online harms, Professor Amy Orben of the University of Cambridge has warned that there…
Finding the evidence for the social media ban
After this week’s announcement that under-16s will be banned from major social media platforms, we delve into the evidence behind the ban with Professor Amy Orben, Programme Leader of the Digital Mental Health Group at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Catherine Sebastian, Head of Evidence at Wel…
15. Merchants at the Gates: Social Media, Attention, and the Christian Soul
It's Friday afternoon in Jerusalem, around 430 years before Christ, and merchants from Tyre are selling fish at the city gates as the Sabbath draws near. The governor, Nehemiah, orders the gates shut, and the next week the merchants come back and camp outside the wall in the dark, waiting for someo…
Should we be worried about the plague?
This week, Claudia is joined in the studio by Clare Wilson, Science writer at The i Paper.
After a 28-young woman who was studying infectious diseases in a lab in Siberia has died from pneumonia, Health Check takes an in-depth look at the plague, examines what we know about what has happened and as…
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