Cognitive elements of learning and discriminability in anti-phishing training

K Singh, P Aggarwal, P Rajivan, C Gonzalez - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
People adjust decisions based on their experiences; and it is important to know how to
shape these experiences effectively to improve their future decisions. We conducted …

[HTML][HTML] Designing effective masking strategies for cyberdefense through human experimentation and cognitive models

P Aggarwal, O Thakoor, S Jabbari, EA Cranford… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Masking strategies for cyberdefense (ie, disguising network attributes to hide the real state of
the network) are predicted to be effective in simulated experiments. However, it is unclear …

SpeedyIBL: A comprehensive, precise, and fast implementation of instance-based learning theory

TN Nguyen, DN Phan, C Gonzalez - Behavior Research Methods, 2023 - Springer
Instance-based learning theory (IBLT) is a comprehensive account of how humans make
decisions from experience during dynamic tasks. Since it was first proposed almost two …

Adaptive cyberdefense with deception: A human–ai cognitive approach

C Gonzalez, P Aggarwal, EA Cranford… - … , Strategies, and Human …, 2022 - Springer
Achieving a level of dynamic and adaptive autonomy in cyber defense is highly desirable to
advance the capabilities of cyber defense to a whole new level of effectiveness. In such a …

What makes phishing emails hard for humans to detect?

K Singh, P Aggarwal, P Rajivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This research investigates the email features that make a phishing email difficult to detect by
humans. We use an existing data set of phishing and ham emails and expand that data set …

Making predictions without data: How an instance-based learning model predicts sequential decisions in the balloon analog risk task

EH Bugbee, C Gonzalez - Proceedings of the annual meeting of …, 2022 - escholarship.org
Many models in Cognitive Science require data to calibrate parameters. Some modelers
calibrate their models' parameters for each individual in a data set, and others work at the …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling Phishing Decision using Instance Based Learning and Natural Language Processing.

T Xu, K Singh, P Rajivan - Hicss, 2022 - researchgate.net
Phishing is the practice of deceiving humans into disclosing sensitive information or
inappropriately granting access to a secure system. Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of …

Applying Generative Artificial Intelligence to cognitive models of decision making

T Malloy, C Gonzalez - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Generative Artificial Intelligence has made significant impacts in many fields,
including computational cognitive modeling of decision making, although these applications …

Using a computational cognitive model to understand phishing classification decisions of email users

M Shonman, X Shi, M Kang, Z Wang, X Li… - Interacting with …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies of human user behaviours in cybersecurity tasks have used traditional
research methods, such as self-reported surveys or empirical experiments, to identify …

Cognitive architectures and their applications

C Lebiere, EA Cranford, M Martin… - 2022 IEEE 8th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive architectures are computational implementations of unified theories of cognition.
The consensus of 50 years of research in cognitive architectures can be captured in the form …