undertaken efforts to examine the psychological effects of Internet use. Some research employs studying brain functions in Internet users. Some studies assert...
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Internet addiction disorder (IAD), also known as problematic internet use, or pathological internet use, is a problematic compulsive use of the internet...
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Secondly, psychological defects like abandonment, unimportance or lack of genuine attachment are sometimes medicated by the instances of sex addiction...
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Technophilia (category Philosophy of technology)
technologies such as personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and home cinema. The term is used in sociology to examine individuals' interactions...
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Computer addiction (redirect from Pathological Internet use)
addiction, mainly because most cases of computer addiction are related to the excessive use of the Internet. Experts on Internet addiction have described this...
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social media use is associated with a risk of mental health problems, sleep problems, academic struggles, and daytime fatigue. Psychological or behavioural...
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Screen time (redirect from Mental health effects of screen time)
media use and mental health. Screen time is correlated with mental and physical harm in child development. The positive or negative health effects of screen...
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Binge-watching (category Use mdy dates from April 2014)
Your Health? An Exploration of Psychological Factors for Binge-Watching Behavior". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Archived from...
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Social media (redirect from Harmful effects of social media)
Communication media where the audience can play an active role Psychological effects of Internet use Social influence bias – Herd behaviours in online social...
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Cognitive bias (redirect from Psychological biases)
Tversky (1996)". Psychological Review. 103 (3): 592–596. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.314.996. doi:10.1037/0033-295x.103.3.592. Vonk R (1999). "Effects of outcome dependency...
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Social psychology (redirect from Social Psychological)
in the field of sociology, psychological social psychology places more emphasis on the individual, rather than society; the influence of social structure...
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there is much dispute as to what those effects are, how serious the ramifications are and if these effects are more or less evolutionary with human...
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Television consumption (redirect from Decline of television)
television viewing is often driven by a pursuit of pleasure, escapism, or psychological numbing (sometimes described as "anesthetization"). Excessive television...
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Attention span (redirect from Span of attention)
"Sustained Attention Across the Life Span in a Sample of 10,000: Dissociating Ability and Strategy". Psychological Science. 26 (9): 1497–1510. doi:10.1177/0956797615594896...
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operating system) - Psychological effects of Internet use - Public switched telephone network - Publishing QNX - QOTD - Quality of service - QuickTime...
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Problematic smartphone use is psychological or behavioral dependence on cell phones. It is closely related to other forms of digital media overuse such...
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Evolutionary Mismatch Hypothesis: Implications for Psychological Science". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 27 (1): 38–44. doi:10.1177/0963721417731378...
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Brain rot (category Internet memes introduced in 2023)
In Internet culture, brain rot (or brainrot) describes Internet content deemed to be of low quality or value, or the supposed negative psychological and...
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Cyberbullying (redirect from Psychological effects of cyberbullying)
significant effects, including elevated stress and anxiety levels and, in certain cases, chronic psychological trauma. Online shaming is a form of public shaming...
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access and Internet use. Several technology firms have implemented changes intending to mitigate the adverse effects of excessive use of their platforms...
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Technophobia (redirect from Internet phobia)
Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology Man of Extremes|The New Yorker Brosnan, M. (1998) Technophobia: The psychological impact of information technology...
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Chumbox (category Use dmy dates from August 2021)
term derives from the fishing practice of "chumming", the use of fish meat as a lure for fish. A chumbox is a form of advertising associated with outlandish...
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Mobile phones and driving safety (redirect from Cell phone use in automobiles)
this is the third in a series of studies that we have conducted evaluating the effects of cell phone use on driving using the car following procedure (see...
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Computer rage (category Digital media use and mental health)
Computer rage refers to negative psychological responses towards a computer due to heightened anger or frustration. Examples of computer rage include cursing...
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Media psychology (redirect from Media use)
psychology effects. In response, researchers have started to focus their studies on these platforms' psychological effects, specifically the effects on younger...
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Mean world syndrome (section Evolution of mass media)
of literature suggests that social media can have similar psychological effects to that of television providing further support for Gerbner's theory....
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Mobbing (category Use dmy dates from October 2019)
than an individual. Victims of workplace mobbing frequently suffer from: adjustment disorders, somatic symptoms, psychological trauma (e.g., trauma tremors...
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particular significance in Internet and hacker culture. The New Hacker's Dictionary gave the following definition to neophilia: The trait of being excited and...
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headlines that are phrased as a question?". Research Digest. British Psychological Society. doi:10.1080/15534510.2013.847859. S2CID 55530539. Juergens...
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Sealioning (category Internet culture)
insincere pretense of ignorance as a way to disassemble an argument, saying "[i]n contemporary internet slang, eironeia is «sealioning»." Use of the term originates...
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