That is the conclusion of an article, ‘The psychology of stuff and things,” published in the August issue of\u00a0The Psychologist<\/em>\u00a0by Dr Christian Jarrett.<\/p>\n He writes: “Our relationship with our stuff is in the midst of great change. Dusty music and literary collections are being rehoused in the digital cloud<\/strong>. Where once we expressed our identity through fashion preferences and props, today we can cultivate an online identity with a carefully constructed homepage.<\/p>\n “We no longer have to purchase an item to associate ourselves with it<\/strong>, we can simply tell the world \u2026 about our preferences. The self has become extended, almost literally, into technology.”<\/p>\n Dr Jarrett writes the British Psychological Society’s award winning Research Digest blog:\u00a0http:\/\/bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n Other articles in the August issue of The Psychologist look at the importance of social support after a stroke and the experience of hearing voices, while the magazine’s editor Dr Jon Sutton interviews the occupational psychologist Dr Emma Donaldson-Feilder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Psychologist<\/em>\u00a0is the monthly magazine of the British Psychological Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the\u00a0British Psychological Society media release: Our possessions have an extensive and surprising impact on our identities and lives, but they may become less important to us as more and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[339,340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15109,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions\/15109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"clutter,](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/clutter_hoarding.jpg\")
<\/a>Our possessions have an extensive and surprising impact on our identities and lives<\/strong>, but they may become less important to us as more and more of our lives takes place online.<\/p>\n