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
- technology and relationships
- ChatGPT
- chatbots
- digital afterlife
- AI chatbots
- mental health
- AI companions
- AI therapy
- anthropomorphisation
- platformisation
- screentime
- AI
- emotional regulation
- AI relationships
- mental health technology
- griefbots
- ELIZA effect
- human agency
- LLM
- computer-human interaction
- doomscrolling
- agentic AI
- therapeutic alliance
- therapeutic relationship
- digitalwellbeing
- grief bots
- technology ethics
- human behaviour
- Digital 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.
Digital Wellbeing: How to Use Technology Without Losing Yourself
The tech industry and the wellness industry both want your business. One wants you always on. The other's selling disconnection and detox. The main loser in this tug of war is you. Cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket on how to take back control.
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.
Cyberpsychology Explained: How Technology Shapes Us
Who you are shapes the technology you build. The technology you build shapes who you are. Cyberpsychology studies the loop that we’re increasingly caught in, and what it means for how we think, relate, and live.
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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