News tagged with credibility

Online news portals get credibility boost from trusted sources

People who read news on the web tend to trust the gate even if there is no gatekeeper, according to Penn State researchers.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wikipedia founder hails role in US

(AP) -- The founder of Wikipedia hailed the online encyclopedia's role in helping halt U.S. legislation aimed at cracking down on Internet piracy, saying the proposed bills needed to be stopped because they ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Baby see, baby do? Study shows infants take cues from trusted sources, ignore unreliable cues

Babies love to imitate. Ask any parent and they'll report how infants mimic sounds, facial expressions and actions they observe. Now new research from Concordia University, published in the journal Infant Behavior and De ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Four reasons why the quantum vacuum may explain dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this year, PhysOrg reported on a new idea that suggested that gravitational charges in the quantum vacuum could provide an alternative to dark matter. The idea rests on the hypothesis that particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (67) | comments 124 | with audio podcast report

Study: Adults can't tell when children are intentionally lying or misinformed

(Medical Xpress) -- How well adults can detect if children are lying or reporting misinformation is no better than the odds of chance, reports a new Cornell study. The findings have implications for physical and sexual abuse ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Small restaurants counter backlash against chains

When large restaurant companies implement sustainability policies, customers are deeply skeptical of the efforts -- and their opinion of those companies may actually diminish. But consumers do give smaller restaurants a nod ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows students find personal tweets from professors makes them more credible

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that will surely shake the ivory towers of academia, authors Kirsten Johnson and undergraduate student Jamie Bartolino, both of Elizabethtown College, have published a paper in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

We believe experts who confirm our beliefs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Turns out that Average Joe doesn't rate the credibility of an expert based on rigor, clarity, prestige, reputation or the diplomas he or she holds, but rather on whether or not the expert says what we want ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Reviving the FDA: NEJM perspective

In a Perspective piece published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine family medicine physician Susan Okie gives a comprehensive overview of change, and planned change ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Young people give Google, other top brand search results too much credibility

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google it. That's what many college students do when asked to read an excerpt of a play for class, write a resume or find the e-mail address of a politician.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Foreign accents make speakers seem less truthful to listeners

A foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realize, new research at the University of Chicago shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Deforestation failure sounds climate alarm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia's failure to accurately measure and predict emissions from deforestation, and the difficulty it has had in reducing deforestation, should send a warning signal to the world, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A drug-using mother's words have merit in the eyes of her child

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moms who have used drugs may be doing their teens a favour by admitting to it, a University of Alberta research shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Credibility

Credibility refers to the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message.

Traditionally, modern, credibility has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components. Trustworthiness is based more on subjective factors, but can include objective measurements such as established reliability. Expertise can be similarly subjectively perceived, but also includes relatively objective characteristics of the source or message (e.g., credentials, certification or information quality). Secondary components of credibility include source dynamism (charisma) and physical attractiveness.

Credibility online has become an important topic since the mid-1990s, as the web has increasingly become an information resource. The Credibility and Digital Media Project @ UCSB highlights recent and ongoing work in this area, including recent consideration of digital media, youth, and credibility. In addition, the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University has studied web credibility and proposed the principal components of online credibility and a general theory called Prominence-Interpretation Theory.

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