Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows...

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1. Verfasser:	Aboujaoude, Elias 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] W.W. Norton 2012
Schlagworte:	Gesellschaft Psychologie Internet addiction Internet > Psychological aspects Internet > Social aspects Personality disorders Behavior, Addictive Attitude to Computers Impulsive Behavior Internet Psychosocial Deprivation
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Zusammenfassung:	Whether sharing photos or following financial markets, many of us spend a shocking amount of time online. While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. This new self, which Aboujaoude dubs our "e-personality," manifests itself in every curt email we send, Facebook "friend" we make, and "buy now" button we click. Too potent to be confined online, however, e-personality traits seep offline, too, making us impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven even after we log off. This first scrutiny of the virtual world's transformative power on our psychology shows us how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar....From publisher description
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-328) and index
Beschreibung:	349 p. 25 cm
ISBN:	9780393340549