Dr Roshan Rai

Dr Rai’s research is primarily focused on cyberpsychology. This includes research looking at online social interaction, social media and psychological wellbeing, digital wellbeing, as well as how the Internet provides a social space populated by human values, attitudes and ideas.

Dr Rai has also conducted research looking at issues of social cognition, or how people understand and think about the social world. This includes research looking at how social cognition develops through childhood and adolescence.

Psychology

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Cyberpsychology

Wellbeing

Social Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Cyberpsychology

Psychological Well-being (MSc)

Developmental Psychology

Rai, R. & Mitchell, P (2001). The animate-being false belief task. Paper presented at the Psychology Postgraduates Affair Group Conference, Sheffield, U.K.

Rai, R. & Mitchell, P. (2002). The animate-being false belief task. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 5-8 September, Brighton, U.K.

Rai, R. & Mitchell, P. (2003). The animate-being true and false belief tasks. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 10-13 September, Coventry, U.K.

Rai, R. & Mitchell, P. (2005). Inference by elimination, syllogistic inference, and the cartoon character inference task. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 5-8 September, Edinburgh, U.K.

De Lillo, C., Rai, R., & Storer, L. (2006). Spatial working memory capacity for structured and unstructured tapping sequences in children. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 7-9 September, London, U.K.

De Lillo, C., Rai, R., & Storer, L. (2007). A developmental analysis of spatial working memory capacity for structured and unstructured Corsi sequences. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 4-5 January, London, U.K.

Rai, R. Widdowson, J., & Mitchell, P. (2008). Do people think that it is easy to tell when somebody if lying? The illusion of transparency and episodic memory. Paper presented at the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Derby, U.K.

Rai, R., Widdowson, J., & Mitchell, P. (2010). The illusion of transparency: are people egocentric or do people think lies are easy to detect? Paper presented at ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies (3^rd Congress), 2-3 October Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Rai, R. & Attrill, A. (2014). Representations of the Self and Personality: Who is more likely to use Video Communication Online? Poster presented at the 16^th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 22-27 June, Crete, Greece.

Rai, R., Mitchell, M., Herrick, C, & Patel, M. (2015). Human egocentrism: Levels of personal fable and its relationship with the illusion of transparency and the self-serving bias. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Social/Developmental Section Conference, 9-11 September, Manchester U.K.

Rai, R. & Attrill, A. (2015). Egocentrism and computer-mediated-communication: The illusion of transparency and its effects when communicating over instant messaging, video, and face-to-face. Poster presented at the Social Networking in Cyberspace Conference, 3 September, Wolverhampton, U.K.

Rai, R., Kessling, S., & Billing, N. (2016). Egocentrism and psychological well-being: can the personal fable actually benefit adolescents and emerging adults. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 14-16 September, Belfast, U.K.

Rai, R., Smith, E., & Svirydzenka, N. (2017). Egocentrism and cyberbullying: Imaginary audience and personal fable ideation predict cyberbullying and cyber victimisation in adolescents and emerging adults. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference, 13-15 September, Stratford-upon-Avon, U.K.

Rai, R., Blocksidge, J. Cheng, M. (2020). Materialism and Facebook usage: Could materialistic and non-materialistic values be linked to using Facebook differently? Paper presented at the 22^nd International Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, 19-24^th July, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Rai, R., Chauhan, C., & Cheng, M. (2021). Materialism and the mass media: Hours spent on the Internet predicts materialistic values and brand knowledge. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Section Conference, 6-7^th July.

Smith, E., Wilson, A., Scase, M., & Rai, R. (2021). Exploring the perceptions of cyberbullying and cyber aggression in emerging adults. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Section Conference, 6-7^th July.

£35,935 (Co-Investigator) Defence Science Technology Laboratory, MOD. The Effects of Video as a Medium for Live Communication and Interaction, 2014 (PI: A. Attrill, CIs: R. Rai, M. Whitty).

£29,885 (Co-Investigator) Defence Science Technology Laboratory, MOD. Turned On, Tuned In, Dropped Out: The Impact of Ever Present Technology on Human Behaviour and Decision Making, 2017 (PI: M. Scase, CIs: L. Hadlington, R. Rai).

£29960 (Co-Investigator) Defence Science Technology Laboratory, MOD. User Reactions to Failures and Frustrations Within Cyber Environments, 2018 (PI: M. Scase, CIs: L. Hadlington, R. Rai, C. Turner, M. Westmacott).

£41644 (Co-investigator) Defence and Science Technology Laboratory, MOD. User Reactions to Failures and Frustrations Within Cyber Environments - Systematic Coding of Previous Work (URM Coding), 2018 (PI: M. Scase, L. Hadlington, R. Rai).

Dr Rai has reviewed grant applications and end of award reports for the Economic and Social Research Council. Dr Rai has peer reviewed articles for journals, such as Current Psychology, the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, and Computers in Human Behavior.