Janet Morahan-Martin

Department: Applied Psychology

Title: Professor and Chair

Contact Information: jmorahan@bryant.edu 

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, Boston College, 1978
  • M.Ed. in Education for the Emotionally Disturbed, Tufts University, 1968
  • A.B. in Psychology, Rosemont College, 1965

Academic Interests: Psychology of Internet use including internet addiction, gender issues and information evaluation, mental health, issues in psychology curricula.

Teaching:

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Counseling Theory and Practice
  • Psychology of Personality
  • General Psychology

Professional Activities:

  • Founding member of International Society for Mental Health Online; member of American Psychological Association, Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and Society for the Psychology of Women.
  • Cited in Who's Who of America, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in American Education.
  • Recipient of six major grants and fellowships, including U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant for International Studies and Foreign Languages.
  • Editor of journal Cyber Psychology and Behavior: The Impact of the Internet, Multimedia and Virtual Reality on Behavior and Society; reviewer for Teaching of Psychology, Collegiate Microcomputer, and National Social Science Journal.
  • Special Editor of Special Issue on Females and the Internet, Cyber Psychology and Behavior: The Impact of the Internet, Multimedia and Virtual Reality on Behavior and Society, September 2000.
  • Organizer and chair of interdisciplinary symposia entitled "Female Sexualities Online: Victimization, Liberation, and Changing Heterosexual Romantic Ideals" and "Information and Misinformation on the Internet: Design, Limitations and Evaluation," 108th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, August 2000.
  • Author of over 70 refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and presented papers.
  • Morahan-Martin, J., and Schumacher, P. (1999) Incidence and correlates of pathological Internet use among college students. Computers and Human Behavior 16:1-17.
  • Morahan-Martin, J. (1999) The relationship between loneliness and Internet use and abuse. Cyber Psychology and Behavior 2:431-440.
  • Morahan-Martin, J. (2000) Internet abuse: disorder? symptom? fiction? alternative explanations? Paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of Psychology.
  • Morahan-Martin,J., and Schumacher, P. (2000) New technology, gender, and computer and Internet competencies and experiences. Paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of Psychology.
  • Morahan-Martin, J., and Anderson, C. (2000) Beyond search engines: helping others (and ourselves) evaluate online information. Paper presented at the 108th annual convention of the American Psychological Association.
  • Morahan-Martin, J. (in press) Impact of Internet abuse for college students. In Psychology and the World Wide Web (Christopher Wolfe, ed.). Academic Press.