Kathryn Parsons
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
I have worked as a researcher with the Defence Science and Technology Group since 2006. I am a Registered Psychologist with Endorsement in Organisational Psychology. I am also an Adjunct Lecturer within the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. My work involves applying psychological principles to human factors and organisational problems. Much of my research involves the human aspects of cyber security and online social influence.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2013 - ongoing Adjunct Lecturer University of Adelaide, Adelaide 2006 - ongoing Research Scientist Defence Science and Technology Group -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2015 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) 2004 - 2005 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) 2003 - 2003 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Arts Honours (Psychology) 2002 - 2002 Flinders University Australia Graduate Diploma in Psychology 1999 - 2001 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Justice and Society -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country 2013 Registered Psychologist with Endorsement in Organisational Psychology Psychology Board of Australia Australia 2010 Registered Psychologist Psychology Board of Australia Australia 2007 Registered Psychologist South Australian Psychological Board Australia -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Kropf, B., Wood, M., & Parsons, K. (2023). Message matters: Correcting organisational fake news. Computers in Human Behavior, 144, 107732.
Scopus12020 Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., Lillie, M., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., & Calic, D. (2020). When believing in technology leads to poor cyber security: Development of a trust in technical controls scale. Computers and Security, 98, 11 pages.
Scopus12 WoS72020 Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., Lillie, M., Ciccarello, B., Parsons, K., Calic, D., & McCormac, A. (2020). Matching training to individual learning styles improves information security awareness. Information and Computer Security, 28(1), 1-14.
Scopus15 WoS132019 Butavicius, M. A., Parsons, K. M., McCormac, A., Dennis, S. J., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., . . . Powers, D. M. (2019). Using Semantic Context to Rank the Results of Keyword Search.. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 35, 725-741. 2019 Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Delfabbro, P., & Lillie, M. (2019). Predicting susceptibility to social influence in phishing emails. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 128, 17-26.
Scopus48 WoS312019 Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Dennis, S., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., . . . Powers, D. (2019). Using Semantic Context to Rank the Results of Keyword Search. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35(9), 725-741.
Scopus2 WoS22018 McCormac, A., Calic, D., Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Pattinson, M., & Lillie, M. (2018). The effect of resilience and job stress on information security awareness. Information and Computer Security, 26(3), 277-289.
Scopus27 WoS172017 Parsons, K., Calic, D., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., McCormac, A., & Zwaans, T. D. (2017). The Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q): Two further validation studies. Computers and Security, 66, 40-51.
Scopus185 WoS1202017 Hadlington, L., & Parsons, K. (2017). Can cyberloafing and Internet addiction affect organizational information security?. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(9), 567-571.
Scopus52 Europe PMC82017 McCormac, A., Calic, D., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., Zwaans, T., & Pattinson, M. (2017). A reliable measure of Information Security Awareness and the identification of bias in responses. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 21, 1-12.
Scopus202017 McCormac, A., Zwaans, T., Parsons, K., Calic, D., Butavicius, M., & Pattinson, M. (2017). Individual differences and Information Security Awareness. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 151-156.
Scopus188 WoS1322017 Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., & Calic, D. (2017). Managing information security awareness at an Australian bank: a comparative study. Information and Computer Security, 25(2), 181-189.
Scopus19 WoS122016 Pattinson, M., Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., McCormac, A., & Calic, D. (2016). Assessing information security attitudes: a comparison of two studies. Information and Computer Security, 24(2), 228-240.
Scopus18 WoS142015 Parsons, K., Young, E., Butavicius, M., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., & Jerram, C. (2015). The influence of organizational information security culture on information security decision making. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 9(2), 117-129.
Scopus56 WoS382015 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., & Jerram, C. (2015). The design of phishing studies: challenges for researchers. Computers and Security, 52, 194-206.
Scopus64 WoS462014 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., & Jerram, C. (2014). A study of information security awareness in Australian government organisations. Information Management and Computer Security, 22(4), 334-345.
Scopus442014 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Butavicius, M., Pattinson, M., & Jerram, C. (2014). Determining employee awareness using the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q). Computers & Security, 42, 165-176.
Scopus252 WoS1562012 Butavicius, M., Lee, M., Pincombe, B., Mullen, L., Navarro, D., Parsons, K., & McCormac, A. (2012). An assessment of email and spontaneous dialog visualizations. International Journal of Human-computer Studies, 70(6), 432-449.
Scopus6 WoS22012 Pattinson, M., Jerram, C., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., & Butavicius, M. (2012). Why do some people manage phishing e-mails better than others?. Information Management & Computer Security, 20(1), 18-28.
Scopus962011 Johnson, R., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Sunde, J., & Hall, B. (2011). Scenario testing methodology for the assessment of screening technologies. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 7(1-2), 25-38.
Scopus1 WoS12011 Butavicius, M. A., Parsons, K. M., McCormac, A., Foster, R., Whittenbury, A., & MacLeod, V. (2011). Assessment of the ThruVision T4000 Passive Terahertz Camera: A human factors case study. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 338, 183-206.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2011 Graves, I., Butavicius, M., MacLeod, V., Heyer, R., Parsons, K., Kuester, N., . . . Johnson, R. (2011). The Role of the Human Operator in Image-Based Airport Security Technologies. In Lakhmi C. Jain, Eugene V. Aidman, Canicious Abeynayake (Ed.), Innovations in Defence Support Systems - 2 (Vol. 338, pp. 147-176). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2022 Mason, H., Parsons, K., Calic, D., & Due, C. (2022). A Separate Phone to Work and Play: Protection Motivation Theory and Smartphone Security Behaviour. In ACIS 2022 - Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Proceedings (pp. 1-12). Melbourne, Aust: AIS eLibrary. 2020 Reeves, A., Parsons, K., & Calic, D. (2020). Whose risk is it anyway: How do risk perception and organisational commitment affect employee information security awareness?. In HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. Vol. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Vol: 12210) (pp. 232-249). Switzerland AG: Springer, Cham.
Scopus32019 Yu, K., Taib, R., Butavicius, M. A., Parsons, K., & Chen, F. (2019). Mouse Behavior as an Index of Phishing Awareness. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11746 LNCS (pp. 539-548). Switzerland: Springer.
Scopus102018 Calic, D., Brushe, M., Parsons, K., & Brittain, C. (2018). Self-disclosing on Facebook can be risky: Examining the role of trust and social capital. In S. Furnell, & N. Clarke (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (Haisa 2018) (pp. 225-235). UK: University of Plymouth.
WoS12018 Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Lillie, M., Calic, D., McCormac, A., & Pattinson, M. (2018). Which individual, cultural, organisational and inerventional factors explain phishing resilience?. In N. Clarke, & S. Furnell (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2018) (pp. 1-11). Dundee, Scotland, UK: University of Plymouth.
WoS62017 Reeves, A., Parsons, K., & Calic, D. (2017). Securing mobile devices: Evaluating the relationship between risk perception, organisational commitment and information security awareness. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium of Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance (HAISA 2017) (pp. 145-155). Adelaide, South Australia: Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN). 2017 Brittain, C., Parsons, K., Calic, D., & Brushe, M. (2017). 'Anti'-Social Media: Narcissism and Self-Control as predictors of facebook self-disclosure. In Proceedings of the 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2017.
Scopus12016 Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Calic, D., & Jerram, C. (2016). The information security awareness of bank employees. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, HAISA 2016 (pp. 189-198).
Scopus102016 McCormac, A., Calic, D., Parsons, K., Zwaans, T., Butavicius, M., & Pattinson, M. (2016). Test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the human aspects of information security questionnaire (HAIS-Q). In Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2016 (pp. 1-12). online: AIS.
Scopus162016 Parsons, K., Calic, D., & Barca, C. (2016). Self-disclosure on facebook: Comparing two research organisations. In Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2016.
Scopus72016 Calic, D., Pattinson, M., Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., & McCormac, A. (2016). Naïve and accidental behaviours that compromise information security: what the experts think. In N. Clarke, & S. Furnell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (pp. 12-21). Frankfurt, Germany: Plymouth University.
Scopus172015 Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., & Calic, D. (2015). Factors that influence information security behavior: an Australian web-based study. In T. Tryfonas, & I. Askoxylakis (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust Vol. 9190 (pp. 231-241). Los Angeles, CA: Springer.
Scopus372015 Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Pattinson, M., McCormac, A., Calic, D., & Jerram, C. (2015). Do users focus on the correct cues to differentiate between phishing and genuine emails?. In ACIS 2015 Proceedings - 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems. Online: Association for Information Systems.
Scopus142015 Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., Pattinson, M., & McCormac, A. (2015). Breaching the human firewall: Social engineering in phishing and spear-phishing emails. In ACIS 2015 Proceedings - 26th Australasian Conference on Information Systems. Online: Association for Information Systems.
Scopus372015 Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., & Jerram, C. (2015). Examining attitudes toward information security behaviour using mixed methods. In S. Furnell, & N. Clarke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance, HAISA 2015 (pp. 57-70). United Kingdom: Plymouth University.
Scopus122014 Parsons, K., Mccormac, A., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., & Jerram, C. (2014). Using actions and intentions to evaluate categorical responses to phishing and genuine emails. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, HAISA 2014 (pp. 30-41). Plymouth, United Kingdom: University of Plymouth.
Scopus32013 McCormac, A., Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., Pattison, T., . . . Powers, D. (2013). Interfaces for discourse summarisation: A human factors analysis. In H. Shen, R. T. Smith, J. Paay, P. R. Calder, & T. G. Wyeld (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration, OzCHI 2013 (pp. 139-142). ACM.
Scopus12013 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., & Jerram, C. (2013). Phishing for the truth: A scenario-based experiment of users’ behavioural response to emails. In L. Janczewski, H. Wolfe, & S. Shenoi (Eds.), IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Vol. 405 (pp. 366-378). Auckland, NEW ZEALAND: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.
Scopus62 WoS372013 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Butavicius, M., Pattinson, M., & Jerram, C. (2013). The development of the human aspects of information security questionnaire (HAIS-Q). In Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (pp. 1-12). Australia.
Scopus92013 Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Pattinson, M., Butavicius, M., & Jerram, C. (2013). An analysis of information security vulnerabilities at three Australian government organisations. In Proceedings of the European Information Security Multi-Conference, EISMC 2013 (pp. 34-44).
Scopus112011 Pattinson, M., Jerram, C., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., & Butavicius, M. (2011). Managing phishing emails: A scenario-based experiment. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, HAISA 2011 (pp. 75-85).
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2009 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Advisory Committee for the Master of Psychology (Organisational & Human Factors) program University of Adelaide Australia
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