Professor Andrew Przybylski

On 10 April 2024, we hosted Professor Andrew Przybylski at the CBS Forum. Learn more about our guest and his talk below. For more details about the CBS Forum, please visit the link here.

This talk will provide a historic and empirical perspective on how we might understand the links that might link the adoption and use of the internet, mobile broadband, and social media to longer-term trends in mental health and psychological well-being. Starting with a review as to why this question is important and ways this question has been asked over time it will cover how we have understood and tested the idea. The heart of the talk is a review of three global studies examining technology and wellness across the last two decades with a special emphasis on methodology and representativeness. The talk closes with a reflection on what these kinds of studies can and cannot show us as well as cautions about the perils of oversimplifying a complex global phenomenon. Avenues for future research, the formidable challenges ahead, as well as the value of transparent, reproducible, and diverse research will be explored.

• Study 1: Global Internet Connectivity (Clinical Psychological Science, 2023) - Global well-being and mental health in the Internet Age
• Study 2: Facebook Adoption in 72 Countries (Royal Society Open Science, 2023) - Estimating the association between Facebook adoption and well-being in 72 countries
• Study 3: Multiverse Analysis of Internet Use and Well-being (Technology Mind and Behaviour, in press) - A multiverse analysis of the associations between internet use and well-being