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Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 4: Findings – Creating champions of change

On 10 Jul, 2020By admin With No Comments

How people react on-line after being scammed – and how to create champions of change within your organisation.

Behavioural Cybersecurity Pt 2: The Models – TRA and TPB.

On 21 Feb, 2020By admin With No Comments

So previously I talked about health psychology and what it had to offer the domain of cybersecurity behaviour. I mentioned that there were a number of psychological models which have turned out to be incredibly applicable to understanding and predicting why people do and don’t carry out good cybersecurity practices. So today we’re going to […]

Pareidolia: The face on Mars and building narrative

On 07 Aug, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

Seeing patterns where there aren’t any. This is something we do all the time and is referred to as Pareidolia. And when I say all the time – I mean ALL the time. As in – the primary function of that lump of grey matter between our ears is to extract patterns from noise. Our […]

Psychology for Activists: e-book available now!!

On 22 Apr, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

So I have succumbed to the self-publishing bug. And it’s been quite interesting exploring the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem and learning about how this domain works. And also wildly annoying in terms of how the two giants: Apple (iPads etc…) and Amazon (Kindle) are battling it out for supremacy in the e-book stakes with each promoting more […]

The Narrative Mind – Persuasion by telling tales

On 19 Mar, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

So I attended a campaign training session for The Greens recently – and we spent quite a bit of time talking about narrative theory and some interesting psych related aspects of campaigning. Fascinating. This book: ‘The Political Brain’ by Drew Westen was heavily referenced, and apparently is responsible for a major thrust of the Obama […]