Persuasiveness of online product recommendations : the roles of warranting theory and credibility
When people make decisions, they want to know if the information they obtain online comes from authentic sources. Online judgments of a communicator’s authenticity involve making evaluations on at least three criteria: the warranting value of information, the communicator’s credibility, and the cred...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72962 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | When people make decisions, they want to know if the information they obtain online comes from authentic sources. Online judgments of a communicator’s authenticity involve making evaluations on at least three criteria: the warranting value of information, the communicator’s credibility, and the credibility of those who provide information about the communicator. This study articulates two theoretically novel aspects of warranting theory: meta-warranting (communicators’ tendency to be more truthful when an observer can corroborate their claims than when observers cannot) and meta-meta-warranting (an observer’s perception that a communicator is truthful when the communicator provides the observer with the potential to corroborate information). Through an experiment set in a crowdfunding context, support was found for the meta-meta-warranting prediction that if observers are afforded the potential to corroborate information about a target communicator, they believe that the communicator is more authentic than if they are not afforded the potential to corroborate. |
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