Cognitive miser
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"Users aren’t stupid, they’re unmotivated. In social cognition, the term is cognitive miser."[1]
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"To conserve mental resources, we generally tend to favor quick decisions based on learned rules and heuristics."[1]
“... [the security system] must be easy to use and must neither require stress of mind nor the knowledge of a long series of rules...”[2]
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[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ryan West (April 2008). "The psychology of security". Communications of the ACM 51 (4): 34-41. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1330320. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
- ↑ Auguste Kerckhoffs (1883). La cryptographie militaire.