Boffins work out virtual psyche

NOTTINGHAM Trent University is going to offer a masters degree that promises an insight into the mindset of people who go online.

The big idea is that the research degree might demonstrate why people behave strangely the moment they get into cyberspace.

According to the Guardian, the boffins want to find out important questions such as why macho, Yorkie-eating truck drivers are happy being identified as buxom birds from Bristol, or why it matters that you have a lot of friends on Facebook.

The degree in 'cyberpsychology' will look at things such as online gambling, relationships and sexuality.

Dr Monica Whitty, said the course will investigate all the sorts of technology that deliver the Internet and how it effects the minds of users.

The course has been backed by the British Psychological Society which said the subject of Internet sexuality was a huge pendulous issue that was a growing and thrusting area for Freudian innuendo. µ

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The Guardian