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Anomalies are decisions that are hard to justify or rationalise. This paper discusses three: the endowment effect, status quo bias and loss aversion. The endowment effect is a bias for things you own, status quo bias is a bias for the current state of affairs and loss...

This study investigated whether believing an idea is a part of understanding an idea, or whether choosing to believe an idea is in fact a subsequent process to comprehension. Counter to conventional wisdom, it seems as though the former is the more likely of the two....

This study looked into how the big five personality factors influenced job performance across five occupations. It found that only conscientiousness showed a consistent relationship with job performance across all five occupational groups, and that some personality...

Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour suggests attitudes towards a particular behavior, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control all shape an individual's behavioural intentions and behaviours. This study reviews literature concerning the theory and provides...

In the past several years, a number of researchers have raised the issue of the level of security concern among system users, suggesting that security may be undervalued in both centralized and decentralized IS departments, and among IS staff as well as end-users....

This article compares the experiences of white collar and violent crime victims. It finds victims of white collar crime tend to be older, more affluent and relatively more likely to be female than victim crime; it finds generalised anxiety disorder and major...

Researchers designed two studies to test three components of commitment to an organisation: affective commitment (ie, emotional attachment); continuance (ie, the costs of leaving); and normative (ie, feelings of obligation). They found affective and continuance...

The adjectives "objective" and "subjective" frequently precede the noun "measurement," but all too often the terms are used without precision. Kerlinger has described objective measurements in terms of reliability. He states, "An objective procedure is one in which...

Studies of risk perception examine the judgements people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing a basis for understanding and anticipating...

This article reviews research on fear appeals before revising protection motivation theory based on the authors' literature review.