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People want reassurance when making privacy-related decisions-Not technicalities

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JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE
Volume 200, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.111620

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Cyber; Privacy; Decision-making; Reassurance

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Online service users sometimes need support when making privacy-related decisions. Humans make decisions either slowly, by consulting all possible information, or quickly, by relying on cues to trigger heuristics. Human emotions elicited by the decision context affects decisions, often without awareness. Understanding encryption mechanisms and providing reassurance are important in supporting decision-making. Cyber stories and emotional undertones revealed a general negativity that influences cybersecurity-related decisions.
Online service users sometimes need support when making privacy-related decisions. Humans make decisions either slowly, by painstakingly consulting all possible information, or quickly, by relying on cues to trigger heuristics. Human emotions elicited by the decision context affects decisions, often without the decision maker being aware of it. We wanted to determine how an information-based decision can be supported, and also to understand which cues are used by a heuristics-based approach. Our first study enhanced understanding of underlying encryption mechanisms using metaphors. Our participants objected to efforts to make them 'technical experts', expressing a need for reassurance instead. We fed their free-text responses into a Q-sort, to determine which cues they rely on to make heuristic-based decisions. We confirmed the desire for reassurance. Our third study elicited 'cyber stories': Unprompted narratives about cyber-related experiences to detect emotional undertones in this domain. Responses revealed a general negativity, which is bound to influence cybersecurity-related decisions. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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