The Science of Cyber Behavior: An Emerged Field of Research

Is the science of cyber behavior an emerging field or an emerged field? In other words, do we have little or substantial scientific knowledge of human behavior in the cyber space? For the majority of ordinary people and even some scientific researchers, they might hardly hear about the science of cyber behavior or even cyber behavior, thus it would not be a surprise that they might consider that the science of cyber behavior an emerging field. However, as pointed out in recent publications (e.g., Yan & Zheng, 2012), strong evidence suggests that the science of cyber behavior is an emerged rather than an emerging field and there exits substantial scientific knowledge of human behavior in the cyber space accumulated over the past 30 years. This theoretical article is intended to address four questions: What is cyber behavior? What makes the Science of Cyber Behavior an emerged field of research? What is the new evidence that suggests the science of cyber behavior is an emerged field? What should be done to make the science of cyber behavior an established field?