What Is Cyberpsychology?

Cyber Psychology is an emerging network term. Usually refers to an applied psychology subject based on classic theories of psychology, using empirical research as a means to study human psychology, behavior, and regularity in Internet-related scenarios. In a broad sense, cyberpsychology refers to all psychological research related to the internet. The narrow sense of network psychology refers to the profound influence of the self-organized, non-linear viewpoint represented by the network on psychology.

Cyberpsychology

There are two broad definitions of network psychology. Usually refers to the study of human psychology, behavior and regularity under the Internet-related scenarios based on classic psychological theories and empirical research as a means.

The theoretical hypotheses and empirical methods of network psychology are mostly derived from

The main research areas of cyberpsychology are: Internet use of human cognition, emotion, will, behavior, personality, general ability, memory ability,

The most popular research topics in online psychology are the formation and withdrawal of Internet addiction, and the influence of the Internet on personality formation and reconstruction, such as the dual personal problems of users online and offline. Generally speaking, the research field of cyberpsychology is also focused on hot social issues. Cyberpsychology has neither formed its core theory nor its unique research methods, nor has its professional research team and academic journals. So more often, cyberpsychology is only mentioned as an emerging discipline. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm for creating online psychology in academia is very great, and ulterior motives also deliberately use the terms related to online psychology to fool the public. This makes the popularity of online psychology far greater than its academic status. We believe that with the continuous efforts of the majority of psychology researchers and the continuous advancement of the network of social life, network psychology as a social science will soon be completed.