ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Uncovering Susceptibility Risk to Online Deception in Aging.
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- Older adults and online health misinformation: a systematic literature review.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- The psychology of the internet fraud victimization of older adults: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Is this real? Susceptibility to deepfakes in machines and humans.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2026Article
- Ability to Detect Digital Risks: Effects of an Educational Intervention and Dementia Risk Level.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Dissociable brain activity for high-stakes deception detection in young and older adults.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Examining older adults' vulnerability to online health scams: insights from routine activity theory.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Regulating addictive algorithms and designs: protecting older adults from digital exploitation beyond a youth-centric approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Lying to an older adult in a sharing situation: differences between young and mid-life adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Personal, environmental and behavioral predictors associated with online fraud victimization among adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Interoceptive Accuracy Enhances Deception Detection in Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Phishing vulnerability compounded by older age, apolipoprotein E e4 genotype, and lower cognition.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Editorial: Age differences in trust and fraud.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Financial Fraud and Deception in Aging.Advances in geriatric medicine and research · 2023Article
- Aging in an "infodemic": The role of analytical reasoning, affect, and news consumption frequency on news veracity detection.Journal of experimental psychology. Applied · 2022Article
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objectivesFraud in the aged is an emerging public health problem. An increasingly common form of deception is conducted online. However, identification of cognitive and socioemotional risk factors has not been undertaken yet. In this endeavor, this study extended previous work suggesting age effects on susceptibility to online deception.
methodsSusceptibility was operationalized as clicking on the link in simulated spear-phishing emails that young (18-37 years), young-old (62-74 years), and middle-old (75-89 years) Internet users received, without knowing that the emails were part of the study. Participants also indicated for a set of spear-phishing emails how likely they would click on the embedded link (susceptibility awareness) and completed cognitive and socioemotional measures to determine susceptibility risk profiles.
resultsHigher susceptibility was associated with lower short-term episodic memory in middle-old users and with lower positive affect in young-old and middle-old users. Greater susceptibility awareness was associated with better verbal fluency in middle-old users and with greater positive affect in young and middle-old users. DISCUSSION: Short-term memory, verbal fluency, and positive affect in middle-old age may contribute to resilience against online spear-phishing attacks. These results inform mechanisms of online fraud susceptibility and real-life decision-supportive interventions toward fraud risk reduction in aging.
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