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Missouri University of Science and Technology

2017

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Impact Of Framing And Priming On Users' Behavior In Cybersecurity, Kavya Sharma Jan 2017

Impact Of Framing And Priming On Users' Behavior In Cybersecurity, Kavya Sharma

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"This research examines the impact of framing and priming on users' behavior (i.e., action) in a cybersecurity setting. It also examines perceptual outcomes (i.e., confidence, perceived severity, perceived susceptibility, trust, and fear) associated with the users' cybersecurity action. The research draws on prospect theory in the behavioral economics literature and instance-based learning theory in the education literature to generate the hypotheses for the research. A between-subject experimental design (N=129) was used. The results suggest that priming users to cybersecurity risks reduces their risk-taking behavior associated with cybersecurity whereas negative framing of messages associated with cybersecurity has no significant effect on …