Responses to the Michelangelo computer virus threat: The role of information sources and risk homeostasis theory

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-51

  Sawyer, John E ^a   Kernan, Mary C ^b   Conlon, Donald E ^b   Garland, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032590243     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb01373.x     Document Type: Article

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