{"title":"When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior.","authors":"Nico Ebert, Kurt A Ackermann, Angela Bearth","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2022.2142952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2022.2142952","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 (<i>N</i> = 1'486), we disentangle the effect of both manipulations and demonstrate that both factors simultaneously influence decision making. Our data indicate that the proportion of people who engage in protection behavior can be increased by roughly 65% by making a particular warning message more visually salient (i.e. a more conspicuous visual design is used). We also show that varying the message's saliency can make people behave very differently when confronted with the same threat or behave very similarly when confronted with threats that differ widely in terms of severity of outcomes. Our results suggest that the visual design of a warning may warrant at least as much attention as the informational content that the warning message conveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"26 3","pages":"233-255"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9988306/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9438264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Risk ResearchPub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-06-07DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2021.1936613
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Aulona Ulqinaku, Dana P Goldman
{"title":"Effect of COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal: A national survey.","authors":"Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Aulona Ulqinaku, Dana P Goldman","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2021.1936613","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13669877.2021.1936613","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Currently, one of the most pressing public health challenges is encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Due to limited supplies, some people have had to wait for the COVID-19 vaccine. Consumer research has suggested that people who are overlooked in initial distribution of desired goods may no longer be interested. Here, we therefore examined people's preferences for proposed vaccine allocation strategies, as well as their anticipated responses to being overlooked. After health-care workers, most participants preferred prioritizing vaccines for high-risk individuals living in group-settings (49%) or with families (29%). We also found evidence of reluctance if passed over. After random assignment to vaccine allocation strategies that would initially overlook them, 37% of participants indicated that they would refuse the vaccine. The refusal rate rose to 42% when the vaccine allocation strategy prioritized people in areas with more COVID-19 - policies that were implemented in many areas. Even among participants who did not self-identify as vaccine hesitant, 22% said they would not want to vaccine in that case. Logistic regressions confirmed that vaccine refusal would be largest if vaccine allocation strategies targeted people who live in areas with more COVID-19 infections. In sum, once people are overlooked by vaccine allocation, they may no longer want to get vaccinated, even if they were not originally vaccine hesitant. Vaccine allocation strategies that prioritize high-infection areas and high-risk individuals in group-settings may enhance these concerns.</p>","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"25 9","pages":"1047-1054"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9718441/pdf/nihms-1766824.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10808704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicating the environmental health risk assessment process: formative evaluation and increasing comprehension through visual design.","authors":"Dorsey Kaufmann, Monica D Ramirez-Andreotta","doi":"10.1080/13669877.2019.1628098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1628098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The environmental health risk assessment process informs clean-up activities at hazardous waste sites. Ensuring this process is accessible and transparent to communities is crucial for environmental health literacy initiatives. The goals of this project were to develop plain language and effective visuals that can be used when communicating the risk assessment process and methods used to predict excess cancer risk(s) due to environmental exposures. In this study, a community factsheet entitled, \"Understanding Environmental Health Risk Assessment\" was developed and a participatory design and formative evaluation approach was implemented with a set of representative users (<i>n</i> = 11). Community members living in the vicinity of two Arizona hazardous waste sites as well as three public health professionals/researchers were asked to evaluate the functionality and accessibility of the factsheet, particularly the graphics and whether the text was written in plain language. Participant responses revealed the following major findings: 1) form follows function, 2) graphic elements should outweigh text, 3) line of sight and layout is critical to information accessibility, 4) color coding dramatically aids the reader, 5) content should be strategically grouped, 6) concepts per figure should be minimized to ensure comprehension, 7) interactive content is preferred over static content, and 8) communication efforts need to interweave new information with the targeted audience's past and current environmental health understandings to aid in their ability to retain new concepts. Based on participant feedback, new and improved layout decisions, infographics and accompanying text were designed and prepared. This research demonstrates the need and importance of participatory design, information design prototyping, formative evaluation, and a cultural model of risk communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":16975,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Risk Research","volume":"23 9","pages":"1177-1194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13669877.2019.1628098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9282931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}