Research
We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.
― Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics.
Publications
Journal Articles
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Hancock, J. (2022). How Privacy’s Past May Shape Its Future, Science, 375(6578): 270-272.
Brandimarte, L., Pecchi, L., and Piga, G. (2021). Big Tech: Slaves of the Law in order to Be Free? (in Italian) Diritto Pubblico, 3: 811-835.
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2020). Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(4): 736-758.
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2020). Reasons for both Pessimism and Optimism: A Response to the Commentaries. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 30(4): 780-783.
Lobschat, L., Müller, B., Eggers, F., Brandimarte, L., Diefenbach, S., Kroshke, M., and Wirtz, J. (2020). Corporate Digital Responsibility. Journal of Business Research, 122: 875-888.
Terlizzi, M., Brandimarte, L., and Sanchez, O. (2019). Replication of Internet Privacy Concerns in the Mobile Banking Context, AIS Transactions on Replication Research, 5(1), 8.
Brandimarte, L., Vosgerau, J., and Acquisti, A. (2018). Differential Discounting and Present Impact of Past Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(1): 74-92.
Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., Balebako, R., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. F., Komanduri, S., Leon, P. G., Sadeh, N., Schaub, F., Sleeper, M., Wang, Y., and Wilson, S. (2017). Nudges for Privacy and Security: Understanding and Assisting Users’ Choices Online. ACM Computing Surveys, 50(3): 1-41.
Peer, E., Brandimarte, L., Samat, S., and Acquisti, A. (2017). Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70: 153-163.
Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., and Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of Information. Science, 347(6221): 509-514.
Brandimarte, L. (2015). Surveillance. Rivista di Politica Economica (in Italian), 6: 305-331.
Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., and Loewenstein, G. (2013). Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(3): 340-347.
Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., and Brandimarte, L. (2013). Gone in 15 Seconds: The Limits of Privacy Transparency and Control. IEEE Security & Privacy, 11(4): 72-74.
Brandimarte L. (2004). “The optimal exchange rate regime choice towards EU accession. The case of Estonia.” Mondo Bancario, 4: 51-57.
Conference Proceedings
Suntwal, S., Brown, S., and Brandimarte, L. (2021). Pictographs, Ideograms, and Emojis (PIE): A Framework for Empirical Research Using Non-verbal Cues. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (p. 6400).
Woodruff, A., Pihur V., Acquisti, A., Consolvo, S., Schmidt, L. and Brandimarte, L. (2014). “Would a privacy fundamentalist sell their DNA for $1000... if nothing bad happened thereafter? A study of the Westin categories, behavioral intentions, and consequences.” Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), ACM New York, NY. IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award Winner.
Balsa, E., Brandimarte, L., Acquisti, A., Diaz, C. and Gurses, S. (2014). “Spiny CACTOS: OSN Users Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Cryptographic Access Control Tools.” Workshop on Usable Security (USEC) 2014, February 23, San Diego, CA.
Balebako, R., Péer, E., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. and Acquisti, A (2013). “Is it the Typeset or the Type of Statistics? Disfluent Font does not Reduce Self-disclosure.” Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Result (LASER) 2013, October 16-17, Arlington, VA.
Adjerid, I., Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L. and Loewenstein, G. (2013). “Sleights of Privacy: Framing, Disclosures and the Limits of Transparency.” Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2013, July 24–26, Newcastle, UK.
Book Chapters
Acquisti, A., Adjerid, I., Brandimarte, L., Cranor, L. F., Komanduri, S., Leon, P. G., Sadeh, N., Schaub, F., M., Wang, Y., and Wilson, S. (forthcoming). Nudges (and Dark Patterns) for Privacy: Five Years Later. In: Trepte, S. and Masur, P.K. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Privacy and Social Media. Routledge.
Acquisti A., Brandimarte L., Loewenstein G. (2022). Privacy and Behavioral Economics. In: Knijnenburg B.P., Page X., Wisniewski P., Lipford H.R., Proferes N., Romano J. (Eds.) Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82786-1_4.
Acquisti A., Brandimarte L., Loewenstein G. (2018). Privacy and Behavioral Economics. In: Selinger, E., Polonetsky, J., and Tene, O. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, Cambridge University Press.
Brandimarte, L. and Acquisti, A. (2012). “The Economics of Privacy.” In Peitz, M. and Waldfogel, J. (Eds.), The Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford University Press, New York.
Working Papers
“Automated Analysis of Changes in Privacy Policies: A Structured Self-Attentive Sentence Embedding Approach,” with Fang-Yu Lin, Sagar Samtani, Hongyi Zhu, and Hsinchun Chen. Third round review at Management Information Systems Quarterly.
“The Unexplored Consequences of Fear Appeal in Mobile Banking,” with Marco Terlizzi, Sue Brown, and Otavio Sanchez. Second round review at Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
“Exploring Privacy Risk of Exposed Digital Personally Identifiable Information: A Relationship- and Attention-based Entity Resolution Approach,” with Fang-Yu Lin, Sagar Samtani, Hongyi Zhu, and Hsinchun Chen. Submitted to Information Systems Research.
“Field Experiments to Increase Use of Face Coverings on UA Campus,” with Anastasiya Pocheptsova Ghosh, Jennifer Savary, and Kristen Lane. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
“Sensorial cues and online privacy behavior: Offline cues inhibit online disclosure,” with Alessandro Acquisti and Jeff Hancock. In preparation for submission to Management Science.
“Priming privacy,” with Tawfiq Al Ashoor and Grace Fox. In preparation for submission to Management Information Systems Quarterly.
Ongoing projects
“The economics of disinformation: The effects of ad exclusion lists on brand image,” with Davide Bellucci.
“Trustworthy models for automated detection of cyberpredators,” with Ian Harris.
“Ethics of generative AI,” with Anjana Susarla.
“Privacy versus functionality trade-offs,” with Gerd Muehlheusser, Jerg Guttman, and Franziska Weber.