document: Psychology and the Internet 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
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