Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2012

Seiten: 107-127

Zeitschrift: Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Bandnummer: 34

Heftnummer: 2

ISSN: 0197-3533

eISSN: 1532-4834

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2012.655992

Verlag: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
Four experiments investigated the influence of situational familiarity within a judgmental context on the process of credibility attribution. We predicted that high familiarity with a situation would lead to higher efficacy expectations for, and a more pronounced use of, verbal information when making judgments of credibility. Under low situational familiarity, judges were expected to experience higher efficacy expectations for, and a more pronounced use of, nonverbal information. In Experiments 1 through 4, participants under low or high situational familiarity saw a film in which nonverbal cues (fidgety vs. calm movements) and verbal content cues (low vs. high plausibility) were manipulated. As predicted, when familiarity was low, only the nonverbal cues influenced participants' judgments of credibility. In contrast, participants in the high familiarity condition used only the verbal cues. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that efficacy expectations regarding verbal and nonverbal information, but not processing motivation, drive this familiarity effect.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Reinhard, M., Scharmach, M. and Sporer, S. (2012) Situational Familiarity, Efficacy Expectations, and the Process of Credibility Attribution, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), pp. 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2012.655992

APA-Zitierstil: Reinhard, M., Scharmach, M., & Sporer, S. (2012). Situational Familiarity, Efficacy Expectations, and the Process of Credibility Attribution. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 34(2), 107-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2012.655992