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What is Internet Psychology?

A Field Guide for Business Go ahead and Google “what is internet psychology.” What comes back is a curious jumble: a few academic papers behind paywalls, some university course pages, a handful of listicles about social media addiction, and not much that tells you what the field actually is or …

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Personas

Is an online persona the same as personality?

Marketing experts suggest we create “online personas” to represent all the different kind of people who might visit our websites. The argument is, that by creating these cameo portraits of different kinds of visitors we can deliver web experiences specifically suited to each kind of person. That’s a good idea. …

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Web Safety for Children

Talk to your children to get a grasp about how much they know about online safety such as sharing personal information and which emails they shouldn’t be responding to

The Internet - concept

Psychological Pitfalls of Online Communication

The psychological aspects of interaction via the internet make for interesting study. On the one hand, people will say they enjoy connecting with people they do not know online because it allows them to be themselves. They say they feel uninhibited; researches agree that inhibitions are often reduced with cyber-communication and have coined the term disinhibition effect to explain the phenomenon.