2024-03-29T11:51:44
101360
Fri Mar 29 11:51:47 EDT 2024
Real or bogus: Predicting susceptibility to phishing with economic experiments
Yan Chen
101360
https://doi.org/10.3886/E101360V1
We present a lab-in-the-field experiment to demonstrate how individual behavior in the lab predicts their ability to identify phishing attempts. Using the business and finance staff members from a large public university in the U.S., we find that participants who are intolerant of risk, more curious, and less trusting commit significantly more errors when evaluating interfaces. We also replicate prior results on demographic correlates of phishing vulnerability, including age, gender, and education level. Our results suggest that behavioral characteristics such as risk attitude, curiosity, and trust can be used to predict individual ability to identify phishing interfaces.
Controlled Field Experiment
phishing
economic game
vulerability
risk aversion
trust
Ann Arbor, Michigan
4/14/2016 – 5/14/2016
experimental data
All the data is collected through a website designed and developed for the purpose of the experiment. The source code is available at:<br><br><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ImanYZ/PhishingExperiment.git">https://github.com/ImanYZ/PhishingExperiment.git</a>