Cyberpsychology - AI and Psychology

In between half term outings with my little one, mid-afternoon naps and some attempt to improve my fitness, I have more time to reflect.. and read LinkedIn...  AI Writers and Guilty-Until-Proved-Innocent Today's article written by an individual lamenting on a new modern problem; the AI writer and how students are plying their academic literature into AI checkers to see if they can make sure their genuine work is not picked up written by AI. Essentially, maybe we're pointing to new risks in academic environments where students need to care about being guilty until proven innocent...great article. This made me think. Students, me included, pour hours upon hours into academic literature reviews, analysing every detail and importantly, picking up the technical skills of how to write in a very specific way. Personally too, with my tutor's emailed words ringing around and around and around in my head.. 'not specific enough', 'needs to be more concise'... for someo...

I find the concept about whether GenAI has the power to influence self-agency cognitions, beliefs and behaviours, fascinating from a psychological perspective.  So I’ll ask first, what are the main influences of self-agency? Out of personal interest, a search for historical literature acknowledges ancient beliefs were tied to moral and spiritual foundations, with historical movement from religious dogma toward self-agentic autonomy, leading to the understanding of ‘fluid self concept’, one which Michelangelo understood through the lens of personal achievement and intellect. Freud’s argument that self-agency was influenced by societal expectations and unconscious desires was later viewed by Foucault as relating to societal structures, cultural norms and power dynamics, which it could be argued as the foundations for which most modern research understands the modern views of ‘self’; thoroughly embedded in contextual experiences which are indeed fluid and adaptive. So the next questio...