Affect and reliance on affect in making decisions under risk (affect heuristic) are important and distinct concepts that have received virtually no attention in the study of IS/ecommerce risk assessment. Affect in response to a risky stimulus is automatic and precedes all judgments/decisions....

In this paper, we argue that ambiguity, that is people's inability to judge likelihood of risk, is a significant contributor to aversion to spyware risk. Since no objective or authoritative estimates of risk likelihood are available, but users still make decision, it must be the case that user's...

Given the increasing competition in the software industry and the critical consequences of software errors, it has become important to develop methods for early forecasting of software quality. This research utilized a novel forecasting approach based on recent work in using prediction markets,...

With the growth of ecommerce and social networking, consumers can access detailed product information and user online reviews about a product of interest as cues to judgments. While cognitively processing such rich information, people experience meta-cognitive feelings of subjective ease or...

Increasingly and across several disciplines, risk is viewed as an emotional and affective response to hazards, rather than as simply a function of likelihood and consequence. We study people's perception of risk due to online hazards as affect-laden judgments using the psychometric paradigm....

Numerous airlines and online intermediaries are using their web sites to sell airline tickets to passengers. From consumer's perspective as well as from regulator's perspective, privacy policies adopted by the online vendors are receiving critical attention. A survey of privacy policies of US...