We're Not Burning Down the House: Synthesizing Pre-Internet, Current Findings, and Future Research on Social Cognition and Being Online
We're Not Burning Down the House: Synthesizing Pre-Internet, Current Findings, and Future Research on Social Cognition and Being Online
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我们不会烧毁房子:综合互联网出现之前、当前的发现以及关于社会认知和在线的未来研究
DOI:
10.1080/1047840x.2013.850765
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
9.3
通讯作者:
Ljubica Chatman
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文献类型:
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作者:
B. Sparrow;Ljubica Chatman
It was a pleasure to write and learn about all the fascinating work that has been done and should be done regarding the intersection of human cognition, both while writing our target article and reading the wonderful commentaries to it. We are indebted to the authors who submitted their commentary to our target article, thus contributing to the breadth and depth of this issue of Psychological Inquiry: The commentators as a group provided nuances to our own review (e.g., memory and communication/social interaction), discussed aspects we did not consider (e.g., embodiment and an examination of individual differences), sometimes sharing their newest research findings. It’s abundantly clear that we all believe this is an interesting topic worthy of research and that we don’t, as group, believe the Internet is something we need to burn down to save the species. There are, of course, negative aspects to living our lives online just as there are negative aspects to pretty much anything people choose to do with their lives. What is agreed is that the Internet is not going away (several of us used that very phrase) and that there are many ways to approach the study of how humans adapt to living in a different informational environment as it is transformed by the ubiquitous presence and affordances of Internet connectivity. As the use of the Internet expands into more and more areas of life, the approaches to studying its influence are bound to become more diverse and numerous. Although we do believe social cognition should decidedly engage with this important question, many other scientific disciplines will find interest in this topic as well. It seems ill advised to study “the Internet” as a unitary concept. It has an impact on human behavior because of the broad array and ubiquitous presence of a multiplicity of behaviors that it enables. These behaviors, such as Internet searches and chatting, may then introduce significant changes to specific basic cognitive processes. To responsibly study how the Internet might affect our cognitive functioning, it’s important to define the motivations for Internet use, as well as psychologically relevant differences in embodiment, person perception and communication.
影响因子:
7.6
作者:
Gilbert,DT;Brown,RP;Pinel,EC;Wilson,TD
通讯作者:
Wilson,TD