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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 paper, the authors investigate how the level of discretion in the reporting environment and management's reporting reputation influence the extent to which managers' reporting incentives are important in determining the perceived credibility of management's classification choices.
Abstract: In this study we investigate how the level of discretion in the reporting environment and management’s reporting reputation influence the extent to which management’s reporting incentives are important in determining the perceived credibility of management’s classification choices. Consistent with prior research, we show that users view incentive-inconsistent classifications as more credible than incentive-consistent classifications. We extend this finding by showing that the strength of this relationship (i.e., the extent to which users consider the consistency between the classification and management’s reporting incentives) depends on the level of discretion in the reporting environment and management’s reporting reputation. We find that users rely less (more) on the consistency between management’s reporting incentives and the classification in a mandated (discretionary) reporting environment and when managers have a good (poor) reporting reputation. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings and potential future research.

83 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of message framing and message credibility on one's attitude and intention toward exercise and fitness activities was investigated by using a 2 × 2 factorial design and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Abstract: Purpose – To investigate the influence of message framing and message credibility on one's attitude and intention toward exercise and fitness activities.Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 136 respondents participated in the study. A 2 × 2 factorial design was utilized and tested using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).Findings – The findings reveal the significance of source credibility for influencing both attitude and intention toward exercise and fitness activities. Additionally, the results reveal a significant impact of current lifestyle on attitude as well as intention toward exercise and fitness activities.Research limitations/implications – The findings suggest the importance of carefully designed messages to reach and affect a target population whose exercise activity has been largely unaffected despite years of public pronouncements and publicity.Practical implications – Service marketers could most effectively encourage physical activity by utilizing highly credible sources in t...

83 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the role of citizen participation in policy science is discussed and community participation is explored in light of assessing its effectiveness in policy making and its coherence with the role in policy experts.
Abstract: There are continuing debates on methodological issues of policy science. On the one hand, the unprecedented advancement in research methods and technology has made it possible to formulate more precise, empirically driven models of scientific inquiries and thus has added credibility on positivist approach of policy science. On the other hand, social systems and subjective values have increasingly been emphasized in policy analyses and have served as impetus to postpositivist approach of policy science. In this essay, I discuss the role of democratization and citizen participation in policy science. While citizen participation is important to ensure democratization of the process of policymaking and to improve the quality of information provided to make appropriate policy decisions, how such citizen participation can be acquired has become another pressing issue. I explore community participation in light of assessing its effectiveness in policymaking and its coherence with the role of policy experts.

83 citations

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TL;DR: The authors conducted an experiment to examine the effects of balanced and imbalanced conflict story structure on perceived story bias and news organization credibility and found that balanced stories favored either the pro or con side on each issue.
Abstract: An experiment was conducted to illuminate the effects of balanced and imbalanced conflict story structure on perceived story bias and news organization credibility. Participants read mock newspaper stories on capital punishment, flat income tax rate, and drinking age that were systematically manipulated to be balanced or imbalanced. Imbalanced stories favored either the pro or the con side on each issue. Participants were randomly assigned to read one story about each issue. Results showed participants perceived imbalanced stories as biased and correctly identified the side favored by the story's imbalance. Participants evaluated newspapers apparently responsible for balanced stories as more credible than newspapers apparently publishing stories imbalanced to favor one side or the other on the issue. Imbalanced story structure directly led to perceived story bias, and perceived story bias in turn led to negative evaluation of the credibility of the newspaper publishing the imbalanced story.

83 citations

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Traci Hong1
TL;DR: Of the credibility dimensions, trust/expertise and depth were significant predictors of intention to revisit a site in both searches, and fairness and goodwill were nonsignificant predictors in both searched.
Abstract: This study explicates the influence of audience factors on website credibility and the subsequent effect that credibility has on the intention to revisit a site. It does so in an experimental setting in which participants were given two health-related search tasks. Reliance on the web for health-related information positively influenced website credibility in both searches. Knowledge was a significant predictor for the search task that required more cognitive ability. Of the credibility dimensions, trust/expertise and depth were significant predictors of intention to revisit a site in both searches. Fairness and goodwill were nonsignificant predictors in both searches.

83 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,881
20223,791
2021775
2020830
2019822
2018735