Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Organizational Behavior
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
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Yair Amichai-Hamburger received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is the director of the Research Center for Internet Psychology (CIP), based at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. He has worked for many years as an industrial consultant, advising many leading organizations. He has written widely on the impact of the Internet on well-being. His first book, The Social Net: Human Behavior in Cyberspace, was published by Oxford University Press 2005 and his second book, Technology and Psychological Well-being, by Cambridge University Press in 2009.
Dr. Amichai-Hamburger's awards include the following:
--AME (Academy of Management): Award as finalist for best paper entitled "The Power of Emotional Appeals in Promoting Organizational Change Programs" (with S. Fox)
--LIRT (Library Instruction Round Table, American Library Association): Award for the paper "Experiments in Digital Literacy" (with Y. Eshet-Alkali)
Books:
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (Ed.). (2009). Technology and psychological well-being. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (Ed.). (2005). The social net: Human behavior in cyberspace. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2008). Potential and promise of online volunteering. Computers in Human Behavior, 24, 544-562.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2007). Preface: Internet and well-being. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 893-897.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2005). Internet minimal group paradigm. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 8, 140-142.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & Ben-Artzi, E. (2003). Loneliness and Internet use. Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 71-80.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y., Fine, A., & Goldstein, A. (2004). The impact of Internet interactivity and need for closure on consumer preference. Computers in Human Behavior, 20, 103-117.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & Furnham, A. (2007). The positive net. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 1033-1045.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. & Gidion Vinitzky (2010). Social network use and personality. Computers in Human Behavior. 26, 1289-1295
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. & Hayat, Z. (2011). The impact of the Internet on the social lives of users: A representative sample from 13 countries. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 585-589
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & Kinar, O. (2007). The effects of need for cognition on Internet use. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 880-891.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y., & McKenna, K. Y. A. (2006). The contact hypothesis reconsidered: Interacting via the Internet. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), 825-843.
- Aviram, I., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2005). Online infidelity: Aspects of dyadic satisfaction, self-disclosure, and narcissism. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 10(3).
- Eshet-Alkali, Y., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2004). Experiments in digital literacy. Cyberpsychology and Behavior, 7, 421-429.
- Perez, O., Amichai-Hamburger, Y.& Shterental, T. (2009). The Dynamic of Corporate Self-Regulation: ISO 14001, Environmental Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Law and Society Review, 43, 593-630.
Other Publications:
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (in press). Personality, individual differences and Internet use. In A. N. Joinson, K. Y. A. McKenna, T. Postmes, & U.-R. Reips (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2009). Technology and Well-being: Designing the Future. In Y. Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.) Technology and Well-being. (pp 260-278) Cambridge University Press.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2008). Interacting via Internet: Theoretical and Practical aspects In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications (pp. 207-229). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2005). Personality and the Internet. In Y. Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The social net: Human behavior in cyberspace (pp. 27-55). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Amichai-Hamburger, Y. & Barak, A. (2009). Internet and well-being. In Y. Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.) Technology and Well-being. (pp 34-76) Cambridge University Press.
Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Sammy Ofer School of Communications
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
46150 Herzliya
Israel
Phone: +972 9 9527649
Fax: +972 9 9527650