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.