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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: This article investigated the impact of teacher caring and teacher immediacy on student perceptions of teachers' credibility and found that when teacher caring was low, whether the teacher was in the immediate or non-mediate condition made no significant difference.
Abstract: This research investigated the impact of teacher caring and teacher immediacy on student perceptions of teachers' credibility. While the results of the two studies conducted indicated the presence of strong main effects for teacher caring and immediacy and strong negative effects for teacher non‐caring and nonimmediacy on the various dimensions of teacher credibility (as hypothesized), significant interaction effects were observed between caring and nonimmediacy on both dimensions of credibility studied (competence and trustworthiness). In most cases, when teacher caring was low, whether the teacher was in the immediate or nonimmediate condition made no significant difference—both produced negative perceptions of teacher credibility. In contrast, when teacher caring was high, teacher nonimmediacy significantly lowered perceived credibility. Probing of the interaction results suggested that high verbal caring tends to soften the negative impact of teacher nonimmediacy. The results of these studies demonstr...

175 citations

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24 Feb 2011-Vaccine
TL;DR: Anti-vaccination websites are constantly changing in response to the trends in public health and the success of vaccination, and effective vaccine support may be better served by including more emotionally compelling content.

175 citations

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TL;DR: This article found that perceived credibility was reduced when the witness displayed neutral or incongruent emotions, while story content and displayed emotion contributed equally to estimates of the probability of a guilty verdict.
Abstract: Participants viewed one of six video-recorded versions of a rape victim's testimony, role-played by a professional actress in one of six versions: Two versions of the testimony, representing a strong and a less strong rape scenario, were given in a free-recall manner with one of three kinds of emotions displayed, termed congruent, neutral and incongruent emotional expressions. Credibility judgements were strongly influenced by the emotions displayed, but not by the content of the story. When video watching was compared to reading a transcript of the testimony, results indicated that perceived credibility was reduced when the witness displayed neutral or incongruent emotions. Story content and displayed emotion contributed equally to estimates of the probability of a guilty verdict. We conclude that perception of credibility is strongly influenced by social stereotypes regarding appropriate emotional expression. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

175 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the evaluation of product alternatives in Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is a critical step on the basis of results as related to their impact category data, since decisions involving several environmental issues are hardly ever straightforward, since one alternative only seldom clearly dominates the others in all aspects.
Abstract: The evaluation of product alternatives in Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is a critical step on the basis of results as related to their impact category data. Decisions involving several environmental issues are hardly ever straightforward, since one alternative only seldom clearly dominates the others in all aspects. More often, one alternative scores better on some environmental issues and worse on others. A combination of impact data and preferences is then required for evaluation. This can be done using evaluation methods based on fixed societal preferences. However, by applying different evaluation methods to the same data, different “best” alternatives may be chosen. This reduces the credibility of LCA results.

175 citations

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TL;DR: The authors show that the stocks that underwriters recommend perform poorly (compared to "buy" recommendations by unaffiliated underwriters) prior to, at the time of, and subsequent to the recommendation date, and demonstrate that these conflicts bias their views and recommendations of the firms they take public.
Abstract: Brokerage analysts frequently comment on and sometimes recommend companies that their firms have recently taken public. These "booster shots," as they are called in the financial press, may constitute a conflict of interest between an investment bank's fiduciary responsibility to its investing clients (to make accurate recommendations) and its incentive to market the stocks it underwrites. Indeed, we show that the stocks that underwriters recommend perform poorly (compared to "buy" recommendations by unaffiliated underwriters) prior to, at the time of, and subsequent to the recommendation date. Our results are evidence of the substantial conflicts of interest inherent in the different functions investment bankers perform, and demonstrate that these conflicts bias their views and recommendations of the firms they take public. We show that the market does not recognize the full extent of this bias.

175 citations


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