Research Catalog

Title

The psychology of the Internet / Patricia Wallace.

Author

Wallace, Patricia M.

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description

xv, 392 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• An engaging and research-based text, The Psychology of the Internet provides a balanced overview of the psychological aspects of cyberspace. It explores crucial questions about the Internet's effects on human behavior, such as why we often act in uncharacteristic ways in online environments and how social media influence the impressions we form and our personal relationships. The book's balanced approach to the subject encourages readers to think critically about the psychology of the Internet, and how and why their own online behavior unfolds. Drawing on classic and contemporary research, this second edition examines new trends in internet technology, online dating, online aggression, group dynamics, child development, prosocial behavior, online gaming, gender and sexuality, privacy and surveillance, the net's addictive properties, and strategies for shaping the net's future. -- Provided by publisher.
• This timely volume explores the psychological aspects of cyberspace, a virtual world in which people from around the globe are acting and interacting in many new, unusual, and occasionally alarming ways. Drawing on research in the social sciences, communications, business, and other fields, Patricia Wallace examines how the online environment can influence the way we behave, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Our own online behavior then becomes part of the Internet's psychological environment for others, creating opportunities for shaping the way this new territory for human interaction is unfolding. Since the Internet--and our experience within it--is still young, we have a rare window of opportunity to influence the course of its development. With a new preface that incorporates many of the changes online and in the field since the hardcover edition was published, the paperback edition of The Psychology of the Internet includes the latest coverage of e-commerce, workplace surveillance and datamining, all areas of recent intense public concern. Patricia M. Wallace is Executive Director of the Center for Knowledge and Information Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. She is author of an interactive psychology CD-ROM called PRISM and of the textbook Introduction to Psychology, Fourth Edition (with Jeffrey Goldstein). Dr. Wallace is also the principal investigator on grants from the Annenberg Projects/Corporation for Public Broadcasting dealing with language learning through CD-ROMs and the Internet. -- Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Communication > Psychological aspects
• Internet > Psychological aspects
• Psychologie
• Video Games > psychology
• Social Networking
• Child Development
• Computer networks > Psychological aspects
• Social Behavior

Note

• Earlier edition published in 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The internet in a psychological context -- Your online persona: the psychology of impression formation -- Group dynamics on the internet -- The psychology of online aggression -- Liking and loving on the net: the psychology of interpersonal attraction -- Altruism on the net: the psychology of prosocial behavior -- The psychology of online gaming -- Child development and the internet: growing up online -- Gender issues and sexuality on the internet -- The psychology of online privacy and surveillance -- The internet as a time sink -- Nurturing life on the internet.

Call Number

JFE 18-5074

ISBN

• 9781107079137
• 1107079136
• 9781107437326
• 1107437326

LCCN

• 2015017916
• 40025574620

OCLC

908838843

Author

Wallace, Patricia M., author.

Title

The psychology of the Internet / Patricia Wallace.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

40025574620

Research Call Number

JFE 18-5074