The Foundation maintains a list of relevant research outputs that seek to advance knowledge about cyberpsychology, cyber security, serious harms and their treatment. Below is a list of research papers published by Foundation College of Expert members and other academics for public consumption and practicioner professional development.

Carminati, J. Y., Wiley, J. F., Ponsford, J., & Gould,K. R. (2025). The perfect storm of Cyberscam risk: examining personal, injury, and psychosocial risk factors for people with and without acquired brain injury. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 28 (4),275-283. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0435

‍Balcombe, L. (2025). The mental health impacts of internet scams. International Journal of Environmental Research and PublicHealth, 22, 938. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12192844/

Lacey, D., Campbell, A., Goode, S., & Ridout, B. (2024).The Cyberpsychology of Deception: A Mini Review of the Psychological Factors Influencing Scam Compliance. Annual Review of Cybertherapy And Telemedicine 2024, 34. https://emilywall.github.io/media/papers/MemoryCyPSY24.pdf#page=29

Koning, L., Junger, M., & Veldkamp, B. (2024). Risk factors for fraud victimization: The role of socio-demographics, personality ,mental, general, and cognitive health, activities, and fraud knowledge. International Review Of Victimology, 30 (3), 443-479. https://doi.org/10.1177/02697580231215839

Gould, K. R., Carminati, J. Y. J., & Ponsford, J. L. (2023). “They just say how stupid I was for being conned.” Cyberscams and acquired brain injury: A qualitative exploration of the lived experience of survivors and close others. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 33 (2),325-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2021.2016447

‍Shang, Y., Wu, Z., Du, X., Jiang, Y., Ma, B., & Chi, M. (2022). The psychology of the internet fraud victimization of older adults: Asystematic review. Frontiers In Psychology, 13, 912242. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.912242

Wen, X., Xu, L., Wang, J., Gao, Y., Shi, J., Zhao, K., ...& Qian, X. (2022). Mental states: A key point in scam compliance and warning compliance in real life. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 19 (14), 8294. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148294

Whitty, M. T. (2020). Is there a scam for everyone? Psychologically profiling cyberscam victims. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 26 (3), 399-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09458-z
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Lacey, D., Goode, S., Pawada, J., & Gibson, D. (2020). The application of scam compliance models to investment fraud offending. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 6 (1), 65-81. 
‍https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-12-2019-0073
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Montañez, R., Golob, E., & Xu, S. (2020). Human cognition through the lens of social engineering cyberattacks. Frontiers In Psychology, 11, 1755. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01755

Coluccia, A., Pozza, A., Ferretti, F., Carabellese, F.,Masti, A., & Gualtieri, G. (2020). Online romance scams: relational dynamics and psychological characteristics of the victims and scammers. Ascoping review. Clinical Practice And Epidemiology In Mental Health: CP& EMH, 16, 24. https://doi.org/10.2174/1745017902016010024

Whitty, M. T. (2019). Predicting susceptibility to cyber-fraud victimhood. Journal of Financial Crime, 26 (1),277-292. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-10-2017-0095

‍Norris, G., Brookes, A., & Dowell, D. (2019). The psychology of internet fraud victimisation: A systematic review. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 34 (3), 231-245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-019-09334-5

Whitty, M. T. (2018). Do you love me? Psychological characteristics of romance scam victims. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, And Social Networking, 21 (2), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2016.0729