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Dr Rai’s research is primarily focused on cyberpsychology, although this cuts across social psychology, positive psychology/wellbeing, and developmental psychology. More specific research interests include digital wellbeing, online social interaction, social media, adolescent and emerging adult digital technology usage, as well as how the Internet provides a social space populated by human values, attitudes and ideas.

Mary Seacole ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Centre

Cyberpsychology ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ Cluster

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Cyberpsychology

Positive Psychology/Wellbeing

Social Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Cyberpsychology

Lifespan psychology

Wellbeing (MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing)

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 ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ 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.

Smith, E., Farnell, J., Carter, L., Rai, R., & Gibson, B. (2025). Perceived and Evidenced Benefits of Video Game Play Amongst Neurodiverse Populations: A Scoping Review. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Section Conference, 9-10^th July, Birmingham U.K.

£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 ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ 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.