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The psychological affects of information technology

The psychological affects of information technology

p.: 81-87

Keywords: technical progress; psychological effects of technological progress; mental illness; cyborgization; disability; excess availability and loss of privacy; “blurring” the boundaries of corporeality; structure of needs; structure of activity

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Emelin, Vаdim A. , Aleksandr Sh. Tkhostov, Rasskazova Elena I. . The psychological affects of information technology. // National Psychological Journal 2012. 1. p.81-87.

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Issue 1, 2012

Emelin, Vаdim A. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Aleksandr Sh. Tkhostov Lomonosov Moscow State University

Rasskazova Elena I. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract

The analysis of the psychological aspect of technological progress is shown. Its psychological effects such as the development and chronology of mental illness, cyborgisation, invalidation, excess availability and loss of privacy, “blurring” the boundaries of corporeity, increase in dependence risk, change in the structure of needs and activity are considered. Developments of diagnostic criteria for each category of impact are shown.

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Emelin, Vаdim A. , Aleksandr Sh. Tkhostov, Rasskazova Elena I. . The psychological affects of information technology. // National Psychological Journal 2012. 1. p.81-87. doi:

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