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Credibility
About: Credibility is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13730 publications have been published within this topic receiving 331944 citations. The topic is also known as: believability & plausibility.
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of the effect of risk perception on decision-making is presented, where a number of factors are identified that have been found to influence perceptions of risk, which are related to the design of risk messages.
Abstract: Perceptions of risk are an inherent part of the decision-making process. What is more, risk perception can be understood as an individual's assessment of risk, and the adequacy of any risk assessment is reliant on the adequacy of the accessible risk information. Consequently, one way to understand the effect of risk perception on decision-making, and the approach taken in this literature review, is to understand how risk information is communicated and received by an individual. A number of factors are identified that have been found to influence perceptions of risk, which are related to the design of risk messages: the message (colour, signal word, surround shape, and the framing effect), the source of the message (credibility and trust), and the target of the message (risk target). It is concluded that, in order to design effective risk communications, and to facilitate decision-making and safe behaviour, these factors need to be considered, in a context-dependent manner.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify several ways in which political motivations and institutional arrangements can affect macroeconomic policymaking, such as the political business cycle model and the credibility problem of a central bank selecting money growth rates.
Abstract: Economists and political scientists have identified several ways in which political motivations and institutional arrangements can affect macroeconomic policymaking. One way is described by the political business cycle model [42; 37], in which vote-seeking politicians manipulate the path of the economy to secure unsustainably "favorable" conditions at election times. Variants of this model have been widely tested, with limited success.' A second channel for political impacts comes through partisan policy changes brought about by electoral turnover. The pathbreaking work in this literature includes the contributions of Hibbs [30; 31; 32; 33] and Beck [11]. These works have focused on the empirical issue of how unemployment rates vary under Democratic and Republican presidents in the U.S., and have found strong support for the proposition that unemployment rates decline under Democratic administrations. A third phenomenon has been studied primarily by economists, and concerns the credibility problem faced by a central bank selecting money growth rates. Models of the credibility problem [8; 21] describe a setting in which the central bank and the public interact by respectively choosing actual and expected money growth rates. In a variant of the prisoners' dilemma, this interaction can result in excessive inflation.
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TL;DR: One inevitable conclusion is that research synthesis for managers and policy makers will, compared to that for clinicians, leave much discretion in the hands of the synthesiser(s), raising the interesting issue of how to engender trust and credibility in both the people doing the synthesis and the processes they use.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the causal relationship between endorser credibility, brand attitude, brand credibility and purchase intention of air transportation services provided by airlines that adopt a celebrity endorsement strategy.
116 citations
TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of fake news on consumers' evaluations of a brand advertised on the same webpage and found that the news' objective truthfulness has no direct effect on behavioral intentions toward the brand (i.e., intention to purchase, spread word-of-mouth or visit the brand's store).
116 citations