Magali Dufour, Ph. D.

Magali Dufour is a psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Quebec at Montréal (UQAM). She is a researcher with the HERMES team, at the Institut universitaire sur les dépendances, and at the Centre de recherche Charles-Le Moyne. For more than 10 years, she has focused on non-substance addiction, namely Internet addiction, and has published many articles on the subject. She is currently conducting various clinical and research projects among cyberdependent individuals as well as among gamblers. In addition to presenting numerous conferences on Internet addiction, she published the first research studies conducted among problematic Internet users in Quebec.