Document Type
Other
Publication Date
11-2021
Publication Title
Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP)
Abstract
Cybersecurity breaches can occur when one uses an easily hacked password. Prior research has investigated 1) possible steps to encourage users to use strong passwords and 2) how personality is related to users using strong passwords.
We investigated whether personality-based nudging messages based on Big Five traits could nudge people to create stronger passwords (c.f., Jones et al., 2021). We also examined how personal characteristics, such as gender, age, personality traits, password knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, and need for cognition, were related to password strength.
We tested the hypothesis that passwords created following messages matching participants’ personality would be stronger than passwords created following mismatching messages.
Recommended Citation
Kennison, Shelia and Chan-Tin, Eric. Nudging Students to Use Stronger Passwords: A Test of Big Five Personality-Based Messages. Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP), , : , 2021. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works,
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Author Posting © The Author(s), 2021. This research was funded by NSF (DGE 1918591 & 1919004).