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Neuroscience Foundations for Human Decision Making in Information Security: A General Framework and Experiment Design

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation ((LNISO,volume 16))

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In this paper, we propose a conceptual model for information security (InfoSec) decision making that is based on cognitive science and neuroscience, and present a comprehensive framework of InfoSec decision making process. In addition, we illustrate a specific experiment design that could be used to investigate how specific automatic affective processes would impact specific components of the InfoSec decision making process.

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  1. University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

    Bin Mai, Thomas Parsons, Victor Prybutok & Kamesh Namuduri

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Informaton Systems, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Appl. Sc. Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. Department of Information Technology, HEC Montréal , Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

    Adriane B. Randolph

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Mai, B., Parsons, T., Prybutok, V., Namuduri, K. (2017). Neuroscience Foundations for Human Decision Making in Information Security: A General Framework and Experiment Design. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41402-7_12

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