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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: The results indicated that medical tourism Web sites largely promote the benefits of medical procedures while downplaying the risks, and relatively little information regarding the credibility of these services appears.
Abstract: This exploratory study analyzed the content of medical tourism Web sites in an attempt to examine how they convey information about benefits and risks of medical procedures, how they frame credibility, and the degree to which these Web sites include interactive features for consumers. Drawing upon framing theory, the researchers content analyzed a sample of 66 medical tourism Web sites throughout the world. The results indicated that medical tourism Web sites largely promote the benefits of medical procedures while downplaying the risks, and relatively little information regarding the credibility of these services appears. In addition, the presentation of benefits/risks, credibility, and Web site interactivity were found to differ by region and type of facility. The authors discuss the implications of these findings concerning the framing of medical tourism Web site content, future directions for research, and limitations.
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TL;DR: It was found that the vividness and valence of each review type had varying effects on review credibility and attitudes about the product, and the credibility of positive statistical reviews did not differ from that of positive narrative reviews.
89 citations
01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: These characteristics are, of course, desirable in a mathematical model of a physical system; but they are clearly too subjective to provide useful and rigorous criteria for model evaluation.
Abstract: If the dictionary definition were the sole criterion, a model would be considered valid if it was found to be well grounded, sound, cogent, logical, and incontestable. Similarly, a model would be deemed credible if it was deserving of or entitled to belief, or if it was plausible, tenable, or reasonable. All of these characteristics are, of course, desirable in a mathematical model of a physical system; but when used as the basis for the definition of model adequacy, they are clearly too subjective to provide useful and rigorous criteria for model evaluation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship of people's visual design preferences to judgments of credibility of information on consumer health information sites and found that visual design judgments bore a statistically significant similarity to credibility ratings.
Abstract: Consumer health information has proliferated on the Web. However, because virtually anyone can publish this type of information on the Web, consumers cannot always rely on traditional credibility cues such as reputation of a journal. Instead, they must rely on a variety of cues, including visual presentation, to determine the veracity of information. This study is an examination of the relationship of people's visual design preferences to judgments of credibility of information on consumer health information sites. Subjects were asked to rate their preferences for visual designs of 31 health information sites after a very brief viewing. The sites were then reordered and subjects rated them according to the extent to which they thought the information on the sites was credible. Visual design judgments bore a statistically significant similarity to credibility ratings. Sites with known brands were also highly rated for both credibility and visual design. Theoretical implications are discussed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a courtroom simulation technique was employed to examine the effects of a communicator's looking behavior on observers' perceptions of his credibility, and the results indicated that witnesses who averted their gaze were perceived to be less credible and, ultimately, the defendant for whom they testified was judged as more likely to be guilty.
Abstract: A courtroom simulation technique was employed to examine the effects of a communicator's looking behavior on observers' perceptions of his credibility. Half of the subjects heard testimony presented on behalf of a defendent by a witness (one of three confederates) who was visually presented as either looking directly toward the target of his communication (gaze maintenance) or slightly downward (gaze aversion) while testifying. The other half of the subjects merely heard the audio portion of the testimony. The results indicated that witnesses who averted their gaze were perceived to be less credible and, ultimately, the defendant for whom they testified was judged as more likely to be guilty. These results are discussed in terms of their implications for research concerned with the communicative effects of visual behavior.
89 citations