Of promoting networking and protecting privacy: Effects of defaults and regulatory focus on social media users’ preference settings

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Highlights:

• This study examines the effect of default settings and regulatory focus on social media users' privacy settings.

• Two experimental studies were conducted.

• Default settings have a significant impact: Users choose the defaults or alternatives proximal to them.

• Regulatory focus also affects users' privacy decisions.

• The default effect is contingent on users' goal orientations (operationalized as regulatory focus).

摘要

•This study examines the effect of default settings and regulatory focus on social media users' privacy settings.•Two experimental studies were conducted.•Default settings have a significant impact: Users choose the defaults or alternatives proximal to them.•Regulatory focus also affects users' privacy decisions.•The default effect is contingent on users' goal orientations (operationalized as regulatory focus).

论文关键词:Privacy,Default effect,Regulatory focus,Social media

论文评审过程:Received 17 October 2018, Revised 8 April 2019, Accepted 1 July 2019, Available online 8 July 2019, Version of Record 12 July 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.001