Psychology and the internet
Subtitle: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal implications
By: edited by Jayne Gackenbach
Contributors: Gackenbach, Jayne, 1946-
Edition: 2nd ed
Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press; Elsevier Academic Press; Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780123694256
Subjects: Communication -- Psychological aspects; Internet -- Psychological aspects; Computer networks -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction to psychological aspects of Internet use / Jayne Gackenbach and Evelyn Ellerman; title: The intrapersonal : statistically "normal" and "deviant" aspects of the self; title: The self and the Internet : variations on the illusion of one self / Elizabeth Reid; title: Causes and implications of disinhibited behavior on the Internet / Adam Joinson; title: Internet addiction : does it really exist? / Mark Griffiths; title: Internet therapy and self-help groups : the pros and cons / Storm A. King and Danielle Moreggi; title: Future clinical directions : professional development, pathology, and psychotherapy on-line / John M. Grohol; title: The interpersonal : from close to distant relationships; title: The psychology of sex : a mirror from the Internet / Raymond J. Noonan; title: Males, females, and the Internet / Janet Morahan-Martin; title: Work and community via computer-mediated communication / Caroline Haythornthwaite, Barry Wellman, and Laura Garton; title: Virtual societies : their prospects and dilemmas / Magid Igbaria, Conrad Shayo, and Lorne Olfman; title: The transpersonal : on the net and the net itself; title: From mediated environments to the development of consciousness / Joan M. Preston; title: World wide brain : self-organizing Internet intelligence as the actualization of the collective unconscious / Ben Goertzel; title: The coevolution of technology and consciousness / Jayne Gackenbach, Greg Guthrie, and Jim Karpen