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
Therapy without a Therapist: Are Therapy Bots Good for Us?
They're available at 3am, they never judge, and they’re incapable of caring about you. A cyberpsychologist’s take on what we stand to gain and lose from therapy bots.
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.