Focusing on what might happen and how it could feel: Can the anticipation of regret change students' computing-related choices?

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 759-783

  Wright, Chris ^a,b   Ayton, Peter ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backing up; Choice; Computing; Decision making; Internet security; Regret

Indexed keywords

BACKING-UP; INTERNET SECURITY; REGRET-BASED INTERVENTION; SECURITY POLICY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; HTML; INTERNET; SECURITY OF DATA; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 19744363123     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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