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Effects of explicit credibility statements by more credible and less credible sources

Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1973
This study investigated the relationship of prior credibility (more; less) and credibility statements in a message (explicit self‐and prestige‐reference; no explicit self‐ and prestige‐reference) to overt behavior, post attitude, and terminal credibility of the source.
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Source Credibility in Environmental Health – Risk Controversies: Application of Meyer's Credibility Index

Risk Analysis, 2001
This article applies an existing five‐item index for measuring source credibility in the context of environmental health – risk controversy. Survey data were gathered in five upstate New York communities facing environmental health – risk issues. Analysis of the five case studies and a combined dataset (N= 870) show that the credibility index was ...
K A, McComas, C W, Trumbo
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Prepurchase Attribute Verifiability, Source Credibility, and Persuasion

Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2001
Recent research has found that search and experience attribute claims are processed differently by consumers, with search attribute claims typically being more believable than experience attribute claims. It is, however, routinely the case that marketers desire to promote a product by making a claim featuring an experience attribute.
Shailendra Pratap Jain, Steven S. Posavac   +1 more
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Perceiving online public opinion: The impact of Facebook opinion cues, opinion climate congruency, and source credibility on speaking out

New Media & Society, 2020
The novel affordances and unique features on social media have transformed the way people assess public opinion. Drawing on the spiral of silence (SOS) theory, this study examines the roles that user-generated comments (UGCs) and aggregated user ...
Alisius D. Leong, S. Ho
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Investors' attitudes toward source credibility

Managerial Auditing Journal, 2006
Purpose – To inform research on source credibility by providing insight into investors' perception and use of common information sources.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 235 individuals with investing experience or intent ranked the perceived credibility of nine common sources that report unaudited corporate earnings estimates and nine sources ...
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Credibility Models for Multi-Source Fusion

2006 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2006
This paper presents a technical approach for fusing information from diverse sources. Fusion requires appropriate weighting of information based on the quality of the source of the information. A credibility model characterizes the quality of information based on the source and the circumstances under which the information is collected.
Wright, Edward J., Laskey, Kathryn B.
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Source Credibility and Order Effects

Psychological Reports, 1971
288 undergraduates formed an opinion about a jury trial, and also formed impressions of the personalities of 10 hypothetical persons. A recency effect occurred for the jury trial, but order effects were inconsistent in the personality impressions. Source credibility also failed to have any consistent effect.
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Repeating Statements Increases Source Credibility

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Repeating statements increases their perceived truth. Yet, whether repetition enhances the credibility of their source remains unexplored. We examined a repetition-induced source credibility effect in four preregistered experiments. In Experiment 1 ( N = 90), we exposed participants to 20 unrepeated and 20 repeated ...
Simone Mattavelli, Marco Brambilla, Christian Unkelbach   +2 more
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How Review Quality and Source Credibility Interacts to Affect Review Usefulness: An Expansion of the Elaboration Likelihood Model

Information Systems Frontiers, 2022
N. Aghakhani, Onook Oh, Dawn G. Gregg, Hemant Jain   +3 more
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Social support, source credibility, social influence, and solar photovoltaic panels purchase intention

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021
Xiaobei Liang, Xiaojuan Hu, Tahir Islam, M. Mubarik   +3 more
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