The Psychology of technology in the age of Artificial Intelligence

The Psychology of technology in the age of Artificial Intelligence

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https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol24-Issue2-fulltext-3452

Keywords:

AI, APA, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Technology

Abstract

The advance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our societies seems resounding and unstoppable. In this context, Humanities and Social Sciences must question the theoretical and methodological foundations of their own disciplines. In Psychology, the American Psychological Association (APA) has developed a series of initiatives from which have emerged the Psychology of Technology. In this paper, we explore how the APA understands and promotes a specific way of conceptualizing the relationships established between psychology and technology, applying thematic content analysis to 36 public domain documents generated by the APA. The main results are: it is asserted that the co-evolutionary intertwining of the psyche and technologies is mainly contemporary, without considering the historical conditions of its emergence; the psyche is conceptualized from a neuroscientific and cognitive-behavioral approach; and, in line with the above, it is argued that the royal road to methodological access to this new field of study is provided by a quantitative assembly of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence that produces a naturalization of digital data.

Author Biographies

Marco Maureira Velásquez, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana

Marco Maureira is a professor at the School of Psychology at the Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM) in Chile. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Philosophy and Classical Studies from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is also a collaborating professor in the Psychology Degree program at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and a visiting professor at the Barcelona Science and Technology Studies Group (STS-b).

Diego González-García, Universidad de la República del Uruguay

Diego González-García is a full-time professor at the Institute of Foundations and Methods of Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of the Republic (UdelaR) and a member of the National System of Researchers (SIN), Uruguay. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a visiting professor at the Barcelona Science and
Technology Studies Group (STS-b). His recent publications include: a) The Echoes of the Superhuman: Cyborgs, Posthumans, and Contemporary Subjects (Arbor); b) The Digitization of Contemporary Life (CEIC Papers); c) The Experimentation of the Self and the Games of Truth (Mnemosine).

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2025-07-15

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Maureira Velásquez, M., & González-García, D. (2025). The Psychology of technology in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Psicoperspectivas, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol24-Issue2-fulltext-3452

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025): Technology and algorithmic governance: Social and political transformations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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