Supervisor: Dr. Malinda Desjarlais (Department of Psychology at Mount Royal University)
Research interests: social networking, Internet use
Stay informed about the research and related activities in the Digital Media & Human Behavior Research Lab at Mount Royal University (Department of Psychology). Dr. Malinda Desjarlais and students examine human-computer interaction, the relation between social interactive technology (text and instant messaging, social network sites) and social well-being, the Google effect, and the influence of mental effort on learning from multimedia.
04/25/2020
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08/13/2018
Currently, I am in the process of editing a forthcoming book entitled The Psychology and Dynamics Behind Social Media Interactions to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research.
Please visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3452 for more details regarding this publication and to submit your work.
This is so true.
06/09/2017
Malinda Desjarlais and Jessica Joseph had a great time presenting at the 2017 CPA national conference in Toronto.
06/06/2017
What do you think...Is the Internet and social media killing civility?
There's a small comment from Malinda Desjarlais in the article regarding how much time people spend on social media on average.
http://www.mtroyal.ca/Summit/socialmedia.htm
www.mtroyal.ca A nationwide U.S. study carried out this year titled Civility in America found that 75 per cent of Americans consider the general tone and lack of politeness in the country to be at crisis levels. Social networking sites (43 per cent) and specifically Twitter (35 per cent) were pegged as arenas wher...
You can meet us and discuss our research at CPA in Toronto.
https://eventmobi.com/cpa2017/speakers/216596/5416488
CPA 2017 CPA Convention 2017 Mobile Event App
05/28/2017
Interesting...
Study links Facebook use to reduced gray matter volume in the nucleus accumbens People who frequently check Facebook on their smartphone tend to have less gray matter in a reward-related area of the brain, according to new research. "S ...
05/22/2017
What do you think - does the internet change what you remember? Comment and share.
https://youtu.be/InlMjKJBrbE
Is the Internet Changing Our Memory? Many of us spend hours a day on the Internet, and whenever we have a question, it's easy to go to Google to quickly look up information. Is this changing the...
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I hope you feel very special and loved for all you do as a mom.
05/09/2017
Our recent journal article has hit the High-Impact Articles list for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Article: Socially Interactive and Passive Technologies Enhance Friendship Quality: An Investigation of the Mediating Roles of Online and Offline Self-Disclosure
By Malinda Desjarlais, Jessica J. Joseph
FREE ACCESS through May 19, 2017 at: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2016.0363
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