AUTHOR=Rodríguez-Priego Nuria , van Bavel René , Vila José , Briggs Pam 

TITLE=Framing Effects on Online Security Behavior

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.527886

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.527886

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=We conducted an incentivised lab experiment examining the effect of gain vs. loss-framed warning messages on online security behaviour. We measured the probability of suffering a cyberattack during the experiment as the result of five specific security behaviours: choosing a safe connection, providing minimum information during the sign-up process, choosing a strong password, choosing a trusted vendor, and logging-out. A loss-framed message led to more secure behaviour during the experiment. The experiment also measured the effect of trusting beliefs, cybersecurity knowledge and gender. Trusting beliefs had a negative effect on security behaviour, cybersecurity knowledge had a positive effect, and gender had no significant effect.