PEST: Phishing Susceptibility Data with Reaction Times and Confidence Ratings

PEST data from a lab-based study evaluating cognitive mechanisms in phishing detection. The dataset includes subject responses, reaction times, and email characteristics from the PHIT task. Ziad M. Hakim from the University of Arizona authored the accompanying research paper.

Use Cases

• Modeling phishing susceptibility based on subject response confidence and reaction time.
• Analyzing the influence of email characteristics like attachments and persuasion techniques on detection.
• Studying cognitive mechanisms by correlating reaction times with confidence ratings for scam vs. safe emails.

Strengths

• Data includes 7 columns per file, such as reaction time, confidence rating, and email category.
• Files are named with structured identifiers including subject number, age, and gender.
• Data is associated with a published research paper, providing academic context.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Arizona (Ziad M. Hakim)

Collection Method

Likely collected from a lab-based study using the PEST and PHIT tasks.