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Companies often turn to a powerful emotion to get employees to be vigilant about cybersecurity. The problem: Fear doesn’t work... scare tactics don’t get people invested in security over the long term, as Marc Dupuis of the University of Washington and Karen Renaud from Abertay University discovered in research last year.