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ArticleJournal of risk research2023

When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior.

Nico Ebert, Kurt A Ackermann, Angela Bearth

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Article in Journal of risk research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Nico EbertCenter for Process Management & Information Security, Institute of Business Information Technology (IWI), ZHAW SML, Winterthur, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9683-4792
Kurt A AckermannCenter for Behavioral Insights & Pricing, Institute of Marketing Management (IMM), ZHAW SML.
Angela BearthConsumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-6468

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior research on how to improve the effectiveness of information security warnings has predominantly focused on either the informational content of warnings or their visual saliency. In an online experiment (

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cookie bannerscookiesdigital riskfear appealInformation securitysaliencywarnings

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PMID36896244
PMCPMC9988306

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