Patricia Wallace (University College University of Maryland)

The Psychology of the Internet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging, research-based textbook explores the psychological aspects of cyberspace and provides a balanced overview of the internet's effects on human behavior and social relationships. Readers learn how social media, texting, online games, and other environments influence impression formation, attraction, online dating, aggression, group dynamics, child development and privacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781107437326
• ISBN-10: 1107437326
• Artikelnr.: 42968557

Autorenporträt

Patricia Wallace is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College's Graduate School and former Senior Director of CTYOnline and Information Technology at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. She is the author of thirteen books, including The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology Is Transforming Work (Cambridge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The internet in a psychological context
2. Your online persona: the psychology of impression formation
3. Group dynamics on the internet
4. The psychology of online aggression
5. Liking and loving on the net: the psychology of interpersonal attraction
6. Altruism on the net: the psychology of prosocial behavior
7. The psychology of online gaming
8. Child development and the internet: growing up online
9. Gender issues and sexuality on the internet
10. The psychology of online privacy and surveillance
11. The internet as a time sink
12. Nurturing life on the internet.