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
Phubbing: Your Phone is the Third Wheel in Your Relationship
You’re a nice person. You wouldn’t invite someone to dinner and ignore them all evening. But your phone might be doing it for you.. Phubbing — phone snubbing — can erode the closest relationships.