The surprising power of a click requirement: How click requirements and warnings affect users' willingness to disclose personal information.

ABSTRACT: What kinds of information and alerts might cause internet users to be more cautious about what they reveal online? We used a 25-item survey to determine whether the strength of Terms of Service (TOS) warnings and the inclusion of a click requirement affect people's willingness to admit to engaging in inappropriate behaviors. A racially and ethnically diverse group of 1,500 people participated in the study; 98.3% were from the US and India and the remainder from 18 other countries. Participants were randomly assigned to five different groups in which warnings and click requirements varied. In the control condition, no warning was provided. In the four experimental groups, two factors were varied in a 2 × 2 factorial design: strength of warning and click requirement. We found that strong war

SUBMITTER: Epstein R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8856545 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature