Insights on Digital Wellbeing, AI Ethics and the Psychology of Technology
Cyberpsychology Basics
Clear, accessible explanations of core concepts in the psychology of technology, from phubbing to grief bots, digital wellbeing to leadership in a time of AI. These posts are starting points that are grounded in research and the overall landscape of what’s happening in cyberpsychology, written for anyone who wants to understand how digital life affects the way we think, feel, work, and relate.
Thought Leadership
Deeper dives into the questions shaping our digital future. These pieces draw on my clinical experience, academic research and cultural commentary to examine what's happening at the intersection of AI, human psychology and society.
- AI ethics
- digital wellbeing
- cyberpsychology
- ChatGPT
- chatbots
- technology and relationships
- digital afterlife
- AI chatbots
- mental health
- AI companions
- AI therapy
- anthropomorphisation
- platformisation
- screentime
- AI
- emotional regulation
- AI relationships
- mental health technology
- AI and human flourishing
- griefbots
- ELIZA effect
- human agency
- human-centred AI
- LLM
- computer-human interaction
- doomscrolling
- agentic AI
- therapeutic alliance
- therapeutic relationship
- digitalwellbeing
- grief bots
- technology ethics
What You’re Risking by Using AI to Help You Write
Before you published your last piece of writing, whether that was a blog, a LinkedIn post, or a piece of short- or long-form writing, you probably used AI. A cyberpsychologist explains why AI writing tools are worth resisting.
How Chatbots Exploit Our Instinct to Humanise Them: A Cyberpsychologist’s Perspective
How do AI chatbots like ChatGPT nudge us into forgetting we're talking to machines? A cyberpsychologist examines five anthropomorphising tactics.
Is the Embodied Therapist an Endangered Species?: AI, Empathy, and What Humans Still Offer
AI can simulate empathy. It can mirror your tone, match your pace, validate your feelings. What it can't do is know suffering from the inside. Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket on what embodied human therapists still offer that machines cannot.
ChatGPT is Coming for Your Soul: How AI Affects Thought
ChatGPT is affecting your cognition. But it may be taking something deeper: the craft of thinking itself, and perhaps your soul.
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