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An Inward Focus of Attention During Information Security Decision Making: Electrophysiological Evidence

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Information Systems and Neuroscience (NeuroIS 2021)

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Insider threat represents a significant source of violations of information security. Our previous research using event-related potentials (ERPs) has revealed patterns of neural activity that distinguish ethical decision making from decisions that do not involve an ethical component. In the current study, we sought to gain insight into the locus of the effect of ethical decision making on the posterior N2 component of the ERPs. The ERP data revealed that the N2 was greater in amplitude for control trials relative to ethical violation trials, and time-frequency analyses revealed that this resulted from a reduction in phase-locked activity across trials rather than a decrease in EEG power. These findings may indicate that ethical decision making related to information security is associated with a greater inward focus of attention than is the case for decision making on control trials.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, DePauw University, Greencastle, USA

    Robert West & Kate Cowger

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  1. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria and University of Linz, Steyr/Linz, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. HEC Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA

    Adriane B. Randolph

  6. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Gernot Müller-Putz

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West, R., Cowger, K. (2021). An Inward Focus of Attention During Information Security Decision Making: Electrophysiological Evidence. In: Davis, F.D., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A.B., Müller-Putz, G. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. NeuroIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88900-5_12

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