Employees’ failures to follow information security policy can be costly to organizations. Organizations implement security controls in order to motivate employees. Many control-related motivations have been explored in information security research (e.g., self-efficacy and behavioral control); however, self-determination has yet to receive attention. Selfdetermination theory is widely used in o...

Two experiments investigated the processes through which post-message behavior (e.g., noncompliance) influences resistance to the message. Participants in Experiment 1 read preventive, consumer-education messages that either opposed the consumption of an alcohol-like product or recommended moderation. Half of the participants then tried the product, whereas the remaining participants performed ...

We examined the impact of users’ information privacy concerns on information systems (IS) effectiveness in organizations. Specifically, we investigated system users’ psychological mechanisms that may involve in the relationship between privacy concerns and IS effectiveness (i.e., perceived usefulness and IS satisfaction) via information systems reactance (ISR) on systems and procedural justice ...

<span>A persuasive agent makes use of persuasion attributions to ensure that its predefined objective(s) is achieved within immediate environment. This made possible based on the five unique features namely sociable, persuasive, autonomy, reactive, and proactive natures. However, there are limited successes recorded behavioural intervention psychological reactance responsible for these fa...

Warning labels on violent television programs give viewers discretionary advice and, therefore, might arouse reactance in viewers of all ages. Information labels give viewers information but no advice and, therefore, should not arouse reactance. Five age groups were tested: 9-11 year olds, 12-14 year olds, 15-17 years olds, 18-20 year olds, and adults at least 21 years old. Participants (N5900)...

This paper discusses and evaluates the application of a social psychologically enriched, user-centered approach to agent architecture design. The major aim is to facilitate human–agent interaction (HAI) by making agents not only algorithmically more intelligent but also socially more skillful in communicating with the user. A decision-making model and communicative argumentation strategies have...

This paper proves the invariance of the second-order modes of continuous-time systems under general frequency transformation, that is, under reactance function. The invariance is proved by obtaining the state-space representation of the transformed system, and its controllability / observability grammians in terms of those of the original system and the reactance system. This invariance propert...

Title of Dissertation: THE DYNAMICS OF REACTANCE AND COGNITIVE STRUCTURE: REACTANCE, RESTORATION, AND TIME. Elena Bessarabova, Ph.D., 2010 Directed By: Professor Edward L. Fink and Professor Monique M. Turner, Department of Communication This dissertation examined the effects of freedom-limiting communication on attitude structures at three points in time. A 2 (Threat to freedom: low threat vs....

Background It is well known that increased airflow limitation as measured by spirometry is associated with the risk of exacerbation in patients with COPD. The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a noninvasive method used to assess respiratory impedance (resistance and reactance) with minimal patient cooperation required. The clinical utility of the FOT in assessing the risk of exacerbations o...

The paper discusses the role of argumentative competencies for the achievement of patient engagement through communication in doctor-patient consultations. The achievement of patient engagement is being proposed by recent studies as a condition that can facilitate in particular patient adherence, which involves behavior change. One obstacle to behavior change that has been observed is reactance...