Technology & Cyber Psychology

Doomscrolling: The Ultimate Negative Flow State

First, A Little Psychology I've written before about social media use and how it can be both helpful and harmful. The article, Is Social Media Reflecting Our Pathology or Adding to It?, ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Flow, Social Media

Is Social Media Reflecting Our Pathology or Adding to It?

Social Media and Mental Health Social media has become an open forum for discussing and sharing stories about mental health. For many, this has been positive, perhaps even a lifesaving, as it ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Mental Health, Social Media, Social Psychology

Social Media Use is Related to Both Ill-Being and Well-Being

Social media use and mental health seems to have a love/hate relationship.  Brailovskaia and Margraf (2016) conducted a large study comparing users and non-users of Facebook on various mental health variables. While ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Depression, Social Media, Social Psychology

Social Media and Self-Esteem

A recent article published in Science Direct looked at the association between social media use and mental health among adolescents. The impact of social media on mental health is certainly not a ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Positive Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, well-being

Therapy Can Be as Effective Online as In Person

From Zoom happy hours to remote learning, one thing most of us have discovered this year is that doing something “virtually” isn’t always as good as the real, in-person thing. But does ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Teletherapy, Treatment

The Psychological Similarities Between Professional Gamers and Baseball Players

Some day soon, the Olympic Games may have video games on the schedule. "But video games aren’t a real sport," you cry. And yet, besides the obvious analogy between video games and ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Gaming

How Different Types of TV Viewing Relate to Children’s Language Skills

Something you never hear anyone say is “children these days don’t watch enough TV.” Indeed, a 2017 report found the average child in the US who is 8 years old or less ...
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/ / Children, Cognitive Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Language, Television

Exposure Therapy in Virtual Reality

Virtual reality technology has created a possibility for entirely new types of therapy. An interesting angle psychology researchers have been exploring for the past several years is how people’s experiences in virtual ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology

Internet Haters Might Be Psychopaths

Spend much time on the internet, and you’ll see that online comment sections can easily degenerate into a swirling, toxic stew of humanity’s worst impulses. Which makes them a perfect subject of ...
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/ / Antisocial, Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Internet, Personality

A Text-Message Treatment for Social Anxiety

Online interventions are a promising new way of providing mental health support, as I’ve written about before. And the logical conclusion of that idea is that if we can treat mental health ...
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/ / Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Social Anxiety, Treatment