An individual's privacy is not a static state; rather it is a decision process encompassing both privacy risks and benefits that the individual encounters in situations requiring information disclosures. Also, privacy is multi-level, including both individual as well as group concerns. The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how much individuals disclose personal information when different dimensions of privacy risks and benefits were present, and to what extent information disclosure affected privacy concerns. This dissertation manipulated the situation where an individual met privacy risk and health security benefits, a situation of gaining security but losing privacy, or vice versa. The two proposed studies in this dissertation performed to better understand this tension. Each study manipulated different situations of benefits and risks, and encouraged participants to make a decision regarding their privacy in a health security context.--From abstract.
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