title: Psychology and the Internet
abstract: This article presents an overview of the way that the Internet is being used to assist psychological research and mediate psychological practice. It shows how psychologists are using the Internet to examine the interactions between people and computers, and highlights some of the ways that this research is important to the design and development of useable and acceptable computer systems. In particular, this introduction reviews the research presented at the International Conference on Psychology and the Internet held in the United Kingdom. The final part introduces the eight articles in this special edition. The articles are representative of the breadth of research being conducted on psychology and the Internet: there are two on methodological issues, three on group processes, one on organizational implications, and two on social implications of Internet use
keyphrases: psychology Internet psychological research methodological issues group processes organizational implications social implications human-computer interactions usability online research