New psychology-based research links users' security behaviors to human emotion

We released a new research report today relevant to this sub. We conducted an experiment in consultation with leading psychology researchers at Duke University and found that users' security behaviors are strongly linked to their attitudes and emotions when facing a security "intervention."

We asked 900 participants to access a fictional file-sharing SaaS app for work. We randomly assigned participants to different "intervention" scenarios that blocked, nudged, or revoked access. We then asked (1) how reasonable they found the intervention; …

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