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Author(s): Lisdorf, Anders
Title: The Effect of Prestige and Expertise on Perceptions of Credibility of
Communication - A Short Survey of Relevant Research
Category: note, discussion paper
Length: 6
Keywords: prestige; credibility; belief; expertise
Abstract: The note is a smal survey of relevant literature, which concludes
that the prestige of a communicator is the most important predictor of
creibility of second hand information. This is folowed by expertise as the
second most important.
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