Privacy, Trust, and Self-Disclosure Online

It is indicated that privacy and trust at a situational level interact such that high trust compensates for low privacy, and vice versa.

Abstract

Author biographies Adam Joinson is a psychologist with interests in information systems, computermediated communication and privacy; he is a senior lecturer in Information Systems in the School of Management at the University of Bath Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a psychologist with interests in Internet-based research methodology (particularly experimental methodology); he is Assistant professor (Oberassistent) in the Department of Psychology, University of Zürich. Tom Buchanan is a psychologist with interests in Internet behavior; he is Reader in