Evidence-based articles on the psychology of digital life, written by a psychology graduate working in cybersecurity.
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The Paradox of Mental Health Apps: More Choice, More Confusion There are now over 10,000 mental health apps available across major app stores. That number sounds like progress…
8 new articles in the last 30 days, latest on 10 October 2026. Browse every article by date
Sharenting: When Parents Overshare Children’s Lives Online By the time the average child turns five years old, their parents will have posted approximately 1,500 photos of them online.…
When the Algorithm Knows Where You’ll Be Before You Do Here’s a strange paradox to sit with: most people say they want to feel safe in their neighborhoods.…
The Regulatory Landscape: Why FDA Approval Matters for Mental Health Apps Over 10,000 mental health apps are available in major app stores right now. Most of them have…
Every Generation Abandons the Town Square Its Parents Built When television arrived in American living rooms during the 1950s, radio executives were baffled. Why would anyone abandon a…
Mental Health App Privacy Risks: What Your Therapy App Knows About You Imagine this: it’s 11pm, and you’ve just finished typing out your deepest anxieties into a mental…
When Saying Yes Means Nothing: The Psychology of Consent Fatigue In 1971, psychologist Martin Seligman described a phenomenon he called “learned helplessness” — the state an organism enters…
Data Brokers Exposed: When Your Private Life Becomes Someone Else’s Product Have you ever searched your own name online and found details you never consciously shared with anyone…
When the Meeting Room Becomes a Battlefield In April 2020, the FBI issued a public warning after dozens of online classrooms and AA recovery meetings were hijacked by…
