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Looking at the Influence of State-of-Mind and Biases on Decision Making in Cyber Security: A Multi-adaptive Neural Agent Model

  • Debby Bouma
  • , Jan Treur*
  • , Peter Roelofsma
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This research investigates the impact of state-of-mind and four domains of bias on decision-making in cybersecurity. The states of mind are rest and panic, while the four domains of biases are: (1) prior hypothesis and focusing on limited targets, (2) exposure to limited alternatives, (3) insensitivity to outcome probabilities, and (4) illusion of manageability, influence. The state-of-mind and the bias domains are integrated into a multilevel adaptive network to illustrate decision-making with respect to state-of-mind and biases. The results demonstrate that the first two domains of bias increase when there is a change in the state-of-mind from rest to panicked, whereas the last two domains decrease. This indicates that people tend to fall back on familiarity when their state-of-mind is panicked.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
Subtitle of host publication21st IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2025, Limassol, Cyprus, June 26–29, 2025, Proceedings, Part I
EditorsIlias Maglogiannis, Lazaros Iliadis, Antonios Papaleonidas, Andreas Andreou
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages159-172
Number of pages14
Volume1
ISBN (Electronic)9783031962394
ISBN (Print)9783031962387, 9783031962417
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event21st IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2025 - Limassol, Cyprus
Duration: 26 Jun 202529 Jun 2025

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
PublisherSpringer
Volume755 IFIPAICT
ISSN (Print)1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)1868-422X
NameAIAI: IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
PublisherSpringer
Volume2025

Conference

Conference21st IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2025
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityLimassol
Period26/06/2529/06/25

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2025.

Keywords

  • adaptive network model
  • biases
  • Cyber security
  • state-of-mind

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