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This study hypothesised that independent self-construals would mimic others less than interdependent self-construals, and it showed as much through a series of experiments.  

This article evaluates a motivational intervention based on the theory of planned behavior, a volitional intervention based on implementation intentions, and a combined motivational plus volitional intervention in promoting attendance at workplace health and safety...

Researchers gather comments on website credibility and report on the top 18 areas of comment. They find website design and look to be the most frequently mentioned indicator of credibility.  

Following a discussion of relevant literature, researchers propose a model of online trust between users and websites. The model includes three factors that affect online trust: perception of credibility, ease of use and risk.  

This study introduces theory into an empirical framework that uses personality traits to predict job performance, thus improving the framework's validity.  

We propose a theory of securities market under‐ and overreactions based on two well‐known psychological biases: investor overconfidence about the precision of private information; and biased self‐attribution, which causes asymmetric shifts in investors' confidence as...

An article exploring the optimal amount of money to invest to protect information. This model looks at the extent to which a piece of information is vulnerable and the potential loss that would occur if it was breached, and notes that companies should spend a small...

Password security is essential to the security of information systems. Human fallibility makes it nearly impossible to follow all of the recommended rules simultaneously. A user with many different passwords, frequently changing, will be forced to write them down...

Past studies suggest that computer security countermeasures such as security policies, systems, and awareness programs would be effective in preventing computer abuse in organizations. They are based on the general deterrence theory, which posits that when an...

Mother Nature knows best--How engineered organizations of the future will resemble natural-born systems.  

Behaviour change is an important concept in relation to health promotion and disease prevention. Self-efficacy has been identified as an important determinant of health behaviour, future health behaviour and health behaviour change. In order to effectively facilitate...

Researchers find people's desire for risk is not consistent in all areas, and varies between things like financial, health and social realms. Regression analysis suggests the changes are due to changes in percieved benefits and risk, as opposed to changes in...

Researchers developed and tested a new measure of 'the need for affect' (ie, the probability of someone approaching or avoiding emotion-inducing situations). They concluded the need for affect is important in understanding emotion-related processes.  

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.  

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...

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...