gps. the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program. exclusive interview with the secretary of treasury janet yellen. is inflation defeated. how likely is a recession? will america s small banks survive? are the sanctions against russia really biting? i ll ask her all that and more. also highly classified documents from the pentagon. leaked on the internet. military plans in the ukraine war have been revealed. allies like south korea and israel are dismayed. we will tell you what you need to know about this burgeoning scandal, but david sanger and mark hertling, thank you very much. finally america s immigration crisis from an angle rarely ever seen. cnn got exclusive access inside a harrowing trip from south america towards the united states on foot. startling is the sheer number of children. but first here s my take. last week , i argued against banning tiktok an
global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program. an exclusive interview with the secretary of treasury janet yellen. is inflation defeated. how likely is the recession? will america s small banks survive? other sanctions against russia really biting? i ll ask her all that and more. also. highly classified documents from the pentagon. leaked on the internet. military plans in the ukraine war have been revealed. allies like south korea and israel are dismayed. we will tell you what you need to know about this burgeoning scandal, but david sanger and mark hertling very much. finally america s immigration crisis from an angle rarely ever seen. cnn got exclusive access inside a harrowing trip from south america towards the united states on foot. startling is the sheer number of children. but first here s my take. last week, i argued against banning tiktok and talking to peop
bf skinner, one of the foundational scholars in the field demonstrated how operate conditioning works by using a simple system of continual rewards for pigeons, teaching them how to fly in circles, guided missiles and even play ping pong. the simplest version to watch is a dog trainer who will give the pet a stream of small treats. to reward him or her for following directions. social media apps provide those small dopamine hits just as reliably jonathan hyde has become famous as a critic of social media. a distinguished social psychologist. he teaches it n y you hide, argues that the rise of social media and its reward system is closely correlated with staggering declines in the mental health of teenagers around 2012, he argues , you begin to see all kinds of indications of declining mental health from self reported
with a stream of videos and gauges. what you like to give you more of it, replacing the friction of deciding what to watch the bernstein researchers explain with a sensory russia bite sized videos delivering endorphin hit after hit. most psychologists would characterize it as also delivering dopamine, the chemical secreted in the brain when we find something pleasurable, such as food, shelter or sex, anything that connects us to others triggers this sense of pleasure because it s an evolutionary response. we survive better in groups then as individuals, social media apps capitalize on this survival mechanism. for their own profit. and tiktok provides this dopamine hit, perhaps faster, better and more pleasurably than any other app. the best way to understand how social media is affecting our brains is to go back to psychology one. oh, one. bf skinner, one of the foundational scholars in the
Johann Hari joins us to talk about his latest book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, in which he examines the reasons behind our inability to focus and seeks to understand how this crisis affects our wellbeing and society.