Journal article

Publication year: 2005

Pages: 21-32

Journal: Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie

Volume number: 36

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0044-3514

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1024/0044-3514.36.1.21

Publisher: Huber, Hogrefe

Abstract: 
We tested the assumptions of the elaboration-likelihood model regarding the influence of involvement on information processing in the field of credibility attribution in everyday life situations in two experiments. Experiment 1 showed that participants under high involvement reported more thoughts about the content than about the source of a statement, and that their credibility judgments were exclusively correlated with the thoughts about the content. In contrast, participants under low involvement reported more thoughts about the source than about the content, and their credibility judgments were only correlated with the thoughts about the source. In Experiment 2, nonverbal and content information were directly manipulated. As expected the manipulation of content information only influenced the credibility judgments of highly involved participants. The nonverbal information about the source exclusively affected the credibility judgments of less involved participants.

Harvard Citation style: Reinhard, M. and Sporer, S. (2005) Beyond words: Credibility attribution on the basis of nonverbal and verbal information as a function of judgment relevance, Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 36(1), pp. 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1024/0044-3514.36.1.21

APA Citation style: Reinhard, M., & Sporer, S. (2005). Beyond words: Credibility attribution on the basis of nonverbal and verbal information as a function of judgment relevance. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie. 36(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1024/0044-3514.36.1.21