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Jean M. Twenge, PhD

Professor of Psychology, College of Science, San Diego State University; Researcher on teens and Generation Z; Author, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents - and What They Mean for America's Future (Forthcoming 2023), iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy -- and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood (2017), The Narcissism Epidemic (2009), and Generation Me (2006); Co-Author, “Associations Between Adolescent Depression and Self-harm Behaviors and Screen Media Use in a Nationally Representative Time-diary Study” (2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology)

Events

Teaching Struggling Brains

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA or Virtually via Zoom  November 18-20, 2022

Keynote Address II: The Distressed Generation: How the Pandemic and Social Media Are Creating a Mental Health Crisis

Educating Mindful Minds

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY  April 19-21, 2018

Keynote Address IV: Educating the iGeneration: Why Kids are Growing Up Stressed, Less Happy and Unprepared for Adulthood