Enhancing Banknote Authentication by Guiding Attention to Security Features and Manipulating Prevalence Expectancy

Autor/inn/en	van der Horst, Frank; Snell, Joshua; Theeuwes, Jan
Titel	Enhancing Banknote Authentication by Guiding Attention to Security Features and Manipulating Prevalence Expectancy
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6 (2021), Artikel 73 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (van der Horst, Frank)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2365-7464
DOI	10.1186/s41235-021-00341-x
Schlagwörter	Monetary Systems; Banking; Deception; Identification; Attention; Reliability; Trust (Psychology); Foreign Countries; Cues; College Students; Replication (Evaluation); Information Security; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Monetary system; Währungssystem; Bankgeschäft; Täuschung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Aufmerksamkeit; Reliabilität; Ausland; Stichwort; Collegestudent; Niederlande
Abstract	All banknotes have security features which are intended to help determine whether they are false or genuine. Typically, however, the general public has limited knowledge of where on a banknote these security features can be found. Here, we tested whether counterfeit detection can be improved with the help of salient elements, designed to guide bottom-up visuospatial attention. We also tested the influence of the participant's a priori level of trust in the authenticity of the banknote. In an online study (N = 422), a demographically diverse panel of Dutch participants distinguished genuine banknotes from banknotes with one (left- or right-sided) counterfeited security feature. Either normal banknotes (without novel design elements) or banknotes that contained a salient element (a pink rectangular frame) were presented for 1 s. To manipulate the participant's level of trust, trials were administered in three blocks, whereby at the start of each block, participants were instructed that either one third, one half, or two thirds of the upcoming banknotes were counterfeit (though the true ratio was always 1:1). We hypothesized (i) that in the presence of a salient element, counterfeits would be better detected when the location of the salient element aligned with the location of the counterfeited security feature--i.e. that it would act as an attentional cue; and (ii) that this effect would be stronger with lower trust. Our hypotheses were partly confirmed: counterfeit detection improved with 'valid cues' and decreasing trust, but the level of trust did not modulate the cueing effect. As the overall detection performance was rather poor, we replicated the study with a sample of university students (N = 66), this time presenting stimuli until response. While indeed observing better overall performance, all other patterns were replicated. Our results provide evidence that attention can be guided to enhance banknote authentication. (As Provided).
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