Dr. Larry Rosen is Past Chair and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is a research psychologist with specialties in generational differences, parenting, child and adolescent development, and educational psychology, and is recognized as an international expert in the "Psychology of Technology." Over the past 25-plus years, Dr. Rosen and his colleagues have examined reactions to technology among more than 30,000 people in the United States and in 22 other countries.

He has written five books including: iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming its Hold on Us; Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn; Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation; and TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @Work @Home @Play; and writes a technology column for the newspaper The National Psychologist and a regular blog for the magazine Psychology Today.

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