The psychology of internet anonymity
Picture this: you’re at a masquerade ball, hidden behind an elaborate mask, and suddenly you feel emboldened to say things […]
Clinical cyberpsychology: therapy in the digital era
If someone had told Sigmund Freud that one day his patients would lie on virtual couches while wearing VR headsets,
Research methods in cyberpsychology: how we study digital minds
If you’ve ever wondered how researchers manage to study something as sprawling and ephemeral as human behaviour online, you’re not
Introduction to forensic cyberpsychology
Have you ever wondered what drives someone to spend hours crafting a phishing email or developing ransomware that will devastate
Where and how to study cyberpsychology: Complete guide
Remember when your grandmother learned to video call during the pandemic, and you watched her face light up seeing her
Cyberpsychology in companies: the invisible hand shaping your workplace
Here’s something that might make you squirm a bit: every digital interaction you have at work is potentially being analyzed,
Fact-checking resistance: Why we choose comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths online
Here’s a peculiar paradox of our digital age: we have unprecedented access to verified information, yet resistance to fact-checking has
Dunning-Kruger on social media: Why confidence doesn’t equal knowledge online
We’ve all encountered them: the armchair epidemiologist during the pandemic, the self-proclaimed economic expert analyzing inflation with three tweets’ worth
Conspiracy theories online: why social media makes them go viral
Last week, I watched a colleague’s intelligent, well-educated aunt share her fifth post about chemtrails controlling weather patterns. Conspiracy theories