Understanding Conspiracy Theories
Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years, and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this…
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Exploring Susceptibility to Phishing in the Workplace
Phishing emails provide a means to infiltrate the technical systems of organisations by encouraging employees to click on malicious links or attachments. Despite the…
Digital Hoarding Behaviours: Measurement and Evaluation
The social and psychological characteristics of individuals who hoard physical items are quite well understood, however very little is known about the psychological characteristics…
What Demographic Attributes Do Our Digital Footprints Reveal?
To what extent does our online activity reveal who we are? Recent research has demonstrated that the digital traces left by individuals as they…
Human and Computer Personality Prediction From Digital Footprints
Is it possible to judge someone accurately from his or her online activity? The Internet provides vast opportunities for individuals to present themselves in…
In Their Own Words: Employee Attitudes towards Information Security
The purpose of this study is to uncover employee attitudes towards information security and to address the issue of social acceptability bias in information…
Within-Subjects Verbal Lie Detection Measures: A Comparison between Total Detail and Proportion of Complications
We examined whether the verbal cue, proportion of complications, was a more diagnostic cue to deceit than the amount of information provided (e.g., total…
The Cognitive Interview and Its Use for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This chapter first discusses the structure of the cognitive interview (CI) and its tenets for eliciting detailed and accurate information from cooperative witnesses. The…
Using Specific Model Statements to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit in Information-Gathering Interviews
Model Statements are designed to modify an interviewee’s expectation of the amount of details required during an interview. This study examined tailored Model Statements,…
Extremism Risk Assessment: A Directory (Full Report)
A CREST report by Monica Lloyd documents frameworks to assess extremist violence. This directory has been assembled from frameworks that have been developed in…
Performance and coping under stress in security settings (Workshop Report)
This CREST report written by Emma Barrett and Nathan Smith, summarises presentations from a workshop on performance and coping under extreme stress. This report…
The Internal Brakes on Violent Escalation: A Descriptive Typology (Full Report)
A CREST report by Joel Busher, Donald Holbrook and Graham Macklin examines why there are often thresholds of violence that members of extremist groups…