Miss Kathryn Parsons
School of Psychology
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science
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.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 - ongoing | Adjunct Lecturer | University of Adelaide, Adelaide |
| 2006 - ongoing | Research Scientist | Defence Science and Technology Group |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Kropf, B., Wood, M., & Parsons, K. (2023). Message matters: Correcting organisational fake news. Computers in Human Behavior, 144, 107732. Scopus10 |
| 2020 | 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. Scopus25 WoS23 |
| 2020 | 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. Scopus26 WoS20 |
| 2019 | 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. Scopus85 WoS72 |
| 2019 | 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 WoS2 |
| 2018 | 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. Scopus40 WoS29 |
| 2017 | 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. Scopus266 WoS193 |
| 2017 | Hadlington, L., & Parsons, K. (2017). Can cyberloafing and Internet addiction affect organizational information security?. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 20(9), 567-571. Scopus72 Europe PMC12 |
| 2017 | 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. Scopus31 |
| 2017 | 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. Scopus237 WoS189 |
| 2017 | 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. Scopus22 WoS13 |
| 2016 | 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. Scopus23 WoS16 |
| 2015 | 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. Scopus74 WoS53 |
| 2015 | 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. Scopus89 WoS71 |
| 2014 | 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. Scopus48 |
| 2014 | 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. Scopus323 WoS221 |
| 2012 | 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 WoS4 |
| 2012 | 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. Scopus107 |
| 2011 | 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 WoS1 |
| 2011 | 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. Scopus4 |
| 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. DOI Scopus20 |
| 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. DOI Scopus9 WoS6 |
| 2019 | 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. DOI Scopus11 |
| 2018 | 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. WoS1 |
| 2018 | 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. WoS2 |
| 2017 | 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. Scopus1 |
| 2016 | 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). Scopus11 |
| 2016 | 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. Scopus18 |
| 2016 | 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. Scopus7 |
| 2016 | 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. Scopus18 |
| 2015 | 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. DOI Scopus49 |
| 2015 | 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. Scopus19 |
| 2015 | 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. Scopus47 |
| 2015 | 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. Scopus12 |
| 2014 | 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. Scopus4 |
| 2013 | 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. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2013 | 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. DOI Scopus83 WoS57 |
| 2013 | 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. Scopus10 |
| 2013 | 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). Scopus13 |
| 2011 | 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). Scopus13 |
| 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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