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Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/68051, first published .
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Cognitive Dissonance–Based Priming Intervention: Randomized Encouragement With in-the-Wild Phishing Simulation Attack in Health Care

Cognitive Dissonance–Based Priming Intervention: Randomized Encouragement With in-the-Wild Phishing Simulation Attack in Health Care

Prosper Kandabongee Yeng   1 , PhD ;   Muhammad Ali Fauzi   2 , PhD ;   Arnstein Vestad   3 , PhD ;   Bian Yang   3 , PhD ;   Katrien De Moor   4 , PhD ;   Christian Jacobsen   5 ;   John-Bosco Diekuu   6 , PhD ;   Meriem Bettayeb   1 , PhD

1 Department of Computer Science and IT, College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2 Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

3 Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway

4 Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

5 Department of Security and Risk Governance, Aidn AS, Oslo, Norway

6 Department of Machine Learning and Computer Vision, School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Prosper Kandabongee Yeng, PhD
  • Department of Computer Science and IT
  • College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University
  • Al Ain, Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Phone: +971 0506991627
  • Email: prosper.yeng@adu.ac.ae