Jan 9, 2007 | Journal article, Research library
This article examines the social psychological theories and research that can be used to design better behaviour interventions. Although the paper focuses on health, the review could be applied in a wide variety of contexts – cyber security included....
Jan 9, 2007 | Journal article, Research library
This paper discusses moral disengagement, with an emphasis on how moral disengagement impedes ecological sustainability. The author notes moral disengagement comes about through: exonerative comparisons that render detrimental practices as righteous; the use of...
Dec 24, 2004 | Journal article, Research library
This paper seeks to properly define routines to facilitate further empirical research into how routines are built and how routines can be changed. Broadly, it defines routines as dispositions that trigger patterns of behaviours in a group of individuals, following...
Mar 15, 2004 | Journal article, Research library
This paper uses an information-processing model of deception detection to understand the reasons underlying Internet consumers’ success and failure at detecting forms of intentional deception that occur on the Internet. Eighty MBA students visited either a real...
May 9, 2003 | Journal article, Research library
This paper explores why some people say they’d like to protect their personal data then take few measures to do so. Hypotheses include limited information, self-control problems, behavioural distortions, and bounded rationality. The authors suggest an experimental...
Dec 1, 2002 | Journal article, Research library
To illustrate the differing thoughts and emotions involved in guiding habitual and nonhabitual behavior, 2 diary studies were conducted in which participants provided hourly reports of their ongoing experiences. When participants were engaged in habitual behavior,...
