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Introduction
David Modic currently works at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Ljubljana. David does research in Human-computer Interaction (in the contexts of cybercrime and IT security), Behavioural Science and Social Psychology. His most recent publication is "We Will Make You Like Our Research: the Development of Susceptibility to Persuasion Scale (PlosONE)".
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October 2018 - present
October 2017 - July 2018
Position
- Engineer
Description
- I am in charge of analyzing and responding to human based attacks on the Cambridge infrastructure. I co-run exercises and provide training to the staff and students.
October 2016 - present
King's College, Cambridge
Position
- Senior non residental member (SNRM)
Education
October 2008 - September 2012
October 2000 - July 2006
September 1993 - December 1999
Publications
Publications (18)
We evaluated how the dark triad (DT) personality traits (Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism) influence willingness to claim for insurance in an online setting. In two mTurk studies (Ns 344 and 699) we created realistic online insurance claim tasks where participants could file claims for insured household items they had supposedly broken. We...
Psychological and other persuasive mechanisms across diverse contexts are well researched, with many studies of the effectiveness of specific persuasive techniques on distinct types of human behaviour. In the present paper, our specific interest lies in the development of a generalized modular psychometric tool to measure individuals’ susceptibilit...
Factor loadings and communalities based on a Principal Axis Factoring with Oblimin Rotation for 54 items from susceptibility to persuasion—II scale on main sample (n = 500).
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Standardised factor loadings / Correlations across items in StP-IIB factors (n = 279) in confirmatory factor analysis.
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Factor loadings for susceptibility to persuasion scale using Principal Axis Factoring with Oblimin Rotation (n = 6609).
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Standardised factor loadings / Correlations across items in factors for StP-II (n = 279) in confirmatory factor analysis.
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Susceptibility to persuasion—II scale items.
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Spearman rho correlations between plausibility and StP-II with its subscales.
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Psychological and other persuasive mechanisms across diverse contexts are well researched, with many studies of the effectiveness of specific persuasive techniques on distinct types of human behaviour. In the present paper, our specific interest lies in the development of a generalized modular psychometric tool to measure individuals’ susceptibilit...
Evolutionary psychology suggests that men are more likely than women to deceive to bolster their status and influence. Also gender perception influences deceptive behavior, which is linked to pervasive gender stereotypes: women are typically viewed as weaker and more gullible than men. We assessed bluffing in an online experiment (N = 502), where p...
Multiple figures and tables, stimulus materials, and other additional information (statistical analyses, other covariates unrelated to current aims, data transparency table, and a glossary of poker terminology) in a single file.
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Self-harming behaviour most commonly begins in adolescence and is more frequent among adolescent females. We explored the hypothesis that adolescent females who deliberately selfharm were more likely to perform worse on a decision-making task. Previous research in adolescents who self-harm reported impaired decision-making. However, research put li...
Drawing from their survey on Internet fraud's emotional consequences, the authors conclude that the psychological effects of victimization are just as critical as the financial. Respondents reported that romance scams and advance fee fraud had the highest emotional impact.
Social-psychological and other persuasive mechanisms across diverse contexts are well researched, yet in general the research focusses on the effectiveness of a specific persuasive technique. In the present paper, our specific interest lies in the development of a generalized modular psychometric tool that measures individual susceptibility to pers...
Social psychologists have established various psychological mechanisms that influence perception of risk and compliance in general. The empirical investigation in this paper focused on how those mechanisms apply to complying with scams. A scale of susceptibility to persuasion was developed, validated and then applied to the phenomena of scam compli...
One way of looking at scam compliance is to treat it as the result of the personality traits of a prospective victim. This article aims to uncover whether a victim personality as a construct exists at all and which personality traits are more pronounced in self-reported respondents to fraudulent offers.506 respondents answered a series of personali...
