ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2021
Is This Phishing? Older Age Is Associated With Greater Difficulty Discriminating Between Safe and Malicious Emails.
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The role of analytical reasoning and source credibility on the evaluation of real and fake full-length news articles.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Trial
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- Decomposing trust-related decision making: dimensionality and predictability of phishing susceptibility in an adult lifespan sample.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Short Video Addiction Tendency and Depression Among Rural Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Increased reliance on heuristic thinking in mild cognitive impairment.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 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
- Challenges and Opportunities During a "New Normal" of Psychological Aging Research.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Examining Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Disposition Profiles and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults: A Latent Profile Analysis.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingArticle
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Abstract
objectivesAs our social worlds become increasingly digitally connected, so too has concern about older adults falling victim to "phishing" emails, which attempt to deceive a person into identity theft and fraud. In the present study, we investigated whether older age is associated with differences in perceived suspiciousness of phishing emails.
methodsSixty-five cognitively normal middle-aged to older adults rated a series of genuine and phishing emails on a scale from definitely safe to definitely suspicious.
resultsAlthough older age was not related to a shift in overall perception of email safety, older age was related to worse discrimination between genuine and phishing emails, according to perceived suspiciousness. DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that cognitively normal older adults may be at particular risk for online fraud because of an age-associated reduction in their sensitivity to the credibility of emails.
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