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Factors Predicting the Explicit and Implicit Attitude Towards Body Scanners

Review of Social Sciences

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Title Factors Predicting the Explicit and Implicit Attitude Towards Body Scanners
 
Creator Laib, Magdalena
Wolkenstein, Larissa
 
Subject Psychology, Security, Attitude
Body scanner, implicit attitude, explicit attitude, ST-IAT, security technology
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Description The study aimed at finding variables predicting the implicit and explicit attitude towards body scanners and to assess possible correlations with regard to dual-process. Age, gender, the personality variables technological affinity and systemizing, knowledge about body scanners and media consumption served as predictors. The explicit attitude was operationalized through a questionnaire measuring expectations about a body scan. A Single Target Implicit Association Test assessed the implicit attitude. Gender and knowledge were significant predictors for the explicit attitude: Women worried more about the effects of a body scan and requested more information. People with more knowledge about body scanners worried more about possible discrimination through body scanners. Predicting the implicit attitude there was a trend that people who have more enthusiasm about technology had a worse implicit attitude towards body scanners. Implicit and explicit attitude did not correlate. The findings suggest that it makes sense to integrate different kinds of users in the design and development process of security technologies to account for different opinions, needs and worries.
 
Publisher LAR Center Press
 
Contributor This work was funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF
project number 13N11453).
 
Date 2016-05-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.socialsciencejournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/33
10.18533/rss.v1i5.33
 
Source Review of Social Sciences; Vol 1, No 5 (2016): May; 18-33
2378-8550
2378-8569
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.socialsciencejournal.org/index.php/site/article/view/33/22
http://www.socialsciencejournal.org/index.php/site/article/downloadSuppFile/33/3
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Magdalena Laib, Larissa Wolkenstein
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0