Feb 26, 2015 | Research library
As the fields of HCI, cybersecurity and psychology continue to grow and diversify there is greater overlap between these areas and new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. This paper argues for a focus specifically on the role of social psychology in...
Feb 25, 2015 | Research library
This paper’s researchers studied the concept of retrieval-induced forgetting in children. Researchers found that while actual memories were indeed subject to retrieval-induced forgetting, false meories were not. The finding suggests cue indepedence – the idea of...
Feb 12, 2015 | Research library
While individual differences in decision-making have been examined within the social sciences for several decades, this research has only recently begun to be applied by computer scientists to examine privacy and security attitudes (and ultimately behaviors)....
Feb 8, 2015 | Research library
Phishing is a prevalent issue of today’s Internet. Previous approaches to counter phishing do not draw on a crucial factor to combat the threat – the users themselves. We believe user education about the dangers of the Internet is a further key strategy to...
Feb 3, 2015 | Research library
As businesses face growing cyber threats, governments in the UK and the US are making strides in the professional development and recognition of information security practitioners. This qualitative research provides the first academic investigation into the attitudes...
Jan 30, 2015 | Research library
This review summarizes and draws connections between diverse streams of empirical research on privacy behavior. We use three themes to connect insights from social and behavioral sciences: people’s uncertainty about the consequences of privacy-related behaviors and...
