The Psychology of Everyday Digital Devices

How are everyday digital devices (e.g., social media) and current AI (e.g., ChatGPT) affecting people’s psychological wellbeing, and transforming and at times upending forms of social interaction and social systems? Building on early work in Value Sensitive Design, our lab has begun focusing on this question, conceptually and empirically.

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