RCSI will host a lecture from the ‘father of CyberPsychology' Professor John Suler this evening which will mark the first anniversary of the establishment of the RCSI CyberPsychology Research Centre.

The talk, open free of charge to the public, will take place at the Houston Lecture Theatre at 6pm at the College's St Stephen's Green campus.

Professor John Suler, Professor of Psychology at Rider University, New Jersey, will address the future of CyberPsychology from the perspectives of the next generation versus the previous generation, who have seen the internet being invented and adopted. The ‘next' generation (i.e. young people such as students) were the first generation to grow up with the internet and struggle to imagine what life would be like without it. He will go on to discuss the wide variety of experiences that people have online and will elicit the audience's ideas about what is important about their lives online.

By showing a video, entitled ‘The Birth of CyberPsychology', Prof. Suler will encourage attendees to think about their own reactions to the video. He has been using this video as a research tool by showing it to various students and observing their responses and reactions to it. Prof Suler will compare and contrast the reactions of the audience in attendance against those of students who he has being engaging.

Speaking ahead of this guest lecture, Prof. Suler said, “I would like to help the audience conceptualise their reactions to this video as well as describe the younger people's reactions, in terms of ‘cyberpsychology architecture’ which is how cyberspace is a psychological space, an extension of the mind and a transitional space that consists of eight dimensions: identity, social, interactive, text, sensory, temporal, reality, and physical.”