Technology & Cyber Psychology

Switching Off Your Phone Half an Hour Before Bed Might Improve Sleep, Memory

I’m not going to bother telling you not to use your phone before bed. Partly because you’ve probably heard that advice before, and partly because it would be hypocritical of me to ...
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/ / Cognitive Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Health Psychology, Memory, Sleep, Social Media, Social Psychology

In Neighborhoods With Faster Internet, Children Feel Worse About Their Lives

Who wouldn’t want a faster internet connection? Kids who want to feel good about their lives, maybe. A new analysis of data from 6,300 children carried about by researchers at University of ...
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/ / Children, Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Emotion-Affective Psychology, Internet, Social Psychology

Is Your Phubbing Hurting Your Kids?

"Phubbing" is an invented word for a phenomenon we all know to be quite real: the act of snubbing someone by burying your face in a smartphone. Psychologists have previously tied phubbing ...
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/ / Children, Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Parenting, Relationships

What Search Trends Tell Us About Anxiety

There are different ways people might choose to cope with anxiety. Talking to a mental health professional. Taking up meditation. Or maybe, Googling it! A new study from researchers in Australia and ...
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/ / Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Internet

Emoji Use Correlates With Dating Success

With the rise of smartphones and online dating, texting with potential dates has become an important part of seeking out a relationship. Now, a new study suggests that having a good emoji ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Emojis, Relationships, Social Psychology

Would You Rather Be Replaced at Work by Another Human or a Robot?

That’s a bleak choice, and it’s exactly the choice researchers in Germany and the Netherlands gave people in a recent study on the psychology of job replacement. OK, the researchers didn’t actually ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Performance Psychology, Work

Phubbing Destroys Relationships

Consider this your annual AllPsych public health announcement about the negative effects of phubbing. In early 2018, I wrote about the dangers of phubbing – that is, of snubbing people by going ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Relationships, Teens

Why You Shouldn’t Drink and Click

Alcohol is something that doesn’t go with certain activities. Driving is the most obvious example. And it turns out that browsing the internet may be another one. A new paper titled Combined ...
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/ / Alcohol, Behavioral Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Internet

Social Media Might Kind of Affect Life Satisfaction in Teens

Maybe you’ve heard that social media usage is linked to lower life satisfaction. But what does that mean? There are multiple ways social media and life satisfaction could be "linked": People with ...
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/ / Cyber Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Happiness, Positive Psychology, Social Media, Social Psychology, Teens

What Do Internet Addiction and Smoking Have in Common?

No, that question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. But it could be the beginning of a psychology study. In fact, a team of researchers in China recently did take it ...
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/ / Addiction, Behavioral Psychology, Cyber Psychology, Internet, Smoking