Jul 10, 2001 | Research library
This paper discusses how fear can trigger elicitation and learning. It proposes fear is evolutionary, automatic and largely immune to conscious control and cites studies that support its propositions.
Mar 1, 2001 | Research library
Psychology is a huge subject, ranging from neuroscience through to clinical topics, and spilling over into cognate disciplines from philosophy through artificial intelligence to sociology. Although it has been studied for much longer than computer science, our...
Jan 26, 2001 | Research library
Rsearchers find that fraud attempts are less likely to succeed if: the offender is a stranger; the initial contact is by telephone or mail; the potential victim has heard of the intended type of fraud beforehand, or; the potential victim attempts to investigate the...
Jan 26, 2001 | Research library
This paper investigated why our ability to control impulses wains during emotional distress. It found when people believed emotional distress to be long-term, they were better able to control impulses – suggesting indulging our impulses during times of distress is an...
Jan 9, 2001 | Journal article, Research library
This paper argues that simply blaming users for security breaches will not lead to more effective security systems and that security designers must address the causes of undesirable user behaviour to design effective security systems. Focusing on passwords in...
Jan 9, 2001 | Research library
As the use of ubiquitous multimedia communication increases so do the privacy risks associated with widespread accessibility and utilisation of data generated by such applications. Most invasions of privacy are not intentional but due to designers inability to...
