Tobias Weickert
Year 4 Student – 2019 Intake – Cohort 1 I’m a behavioural scientist with a background in electronics and psychology. My PhD project centres around the application of habit theory to security. I am currently evaluating the theory in the context of security habits surrounding phishing and in reference to the theory of planned behaviour (TPB)—a frequently-used cognitive model in security research. Furthermore, I’m investigating the extent to which lesser-known extensions of the TPB such as the prototype willingness model can improve the model performance of the TPB in cybersecurity research. Other areas of interest include automated qualitative data analysis. |
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PhD Project |
Habits in Cybersecurity A habit is a “memory-based propensit[y] to respond automatically to specific cues, which [is] acquired by the repetition of cue-specific behaviours in [a] stable context” (Verplanken 2018, p.4). Despite having been widely studied in the psychology, the implications of habit theory for the field of cybersecurity have thus far been insufficiently investigated; consequently, this thesis aims to address this gap.
Supervisors: Professor Adam Joinson (Bath) and Dr Barney Craggs (Bristol) |
PhD Poster |
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Publications and Presented Papers |
Is cybersecurity research missing a trick? Integrating insights from the psychology of habit into research and practice (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103130) |
Studies completed as part of PhD Thesis |
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