Research / Studies
Peer-reviewed research and foundational works, each summarized in plain English and tagged to PsySec principles, tactics, and the belief chain.
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A review of the wider fear-appeal literature finds real disagreement over whether fear appeals are helpful or advisable, and wide variation in how cyber security fear-appeal experiments are designed. The authors propose a standard protocol for such studies.
Fear appeals did increase people's intentions to adopt recommended security actions, but the effect varied across people and depended partly on self-efficacy, response efficacy, perceived threat severity and social influence.