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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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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the debates in 1992 among candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot and argued that candidates are able either to undermine or to preserve the vital issues of personal credibility and policy matters.
Abstract: This text provides a perspective for understanding presidential debates by analyzing the debates in 1992 among candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. It argues that candidates are able either to undermine or to preserve the vital issues of personal credibility and policy matters.
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TL;DR: This article found that source credibility impacts the receipt of experience claims and search claims differently and reported results of two experiments featuring two different types of sources in the context of two different categories that suggest a source high in credibility can be employed to make experience claims more persuasive.
116 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined how individuals evaluate the source credibility of tweets and retweets based on non-content attributes, including authority, identity, and bandwagon cues, and found that all three heuristics impacted source credibility perceptions to some extent.
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TL;DR: The findings demonstrate that a gain-framed message from an expert source with high number of ‘likes’ is considered the most credible message, which has significant implications for information gathering from social media sources, such as the influence of 'likes' on health information.
Abstract: Online sources not only permeate the information-seeking environment of the younger generation, but also have profound influence in shaping their beliefs and behaviors. In this landscape, examining the factors responsible for credibility perceptions of online information is fundamental, particularly for health-related information. Using a 2 (frames: gain vs. loss) × 2 (source: expert vs. non-expert) × 2 (social endorsement: high vs. low) randomized between-subjects experimental design, this study examines the effect of health message framing and the moderating effects of social endorsement and source type on credibility perceptions of Facebook posts. Testing across two issues––physical activity and alcohol consumption––findings indicate that the gain-framed message was perceived as most credible. Additionally, significant three-way interactions suggest that social endorsement and source type affect the relationship between message framing and credibility perceptions. Specifically, the findings demonstrate...
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