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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Main Author: Lew, Zi Jian
Other Authors: Joseph Bart Walther
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-729622020-10-28T08:29:23Z Persuasiveness of online product recommendations : the roles of warranting theory and credibility Lew, Zi Jian Joseph Bart Walther Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Communication theories and models 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. ​Master of Communication Studies 2017-12-15T05:43:43Z 2017-12-15T05:43:43Z 2017 Thesis Lew, Z. J. (2017). Persuasiveness of online product recommendations : the roles of warranting theory and credibility. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72962 10.32657/10356/72962 en Nanyang Technological University 85 p. application/pdf
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Persuasiveness of online product recommendations : the roles of warranting theory and credibility
description 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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title_short Persuasiveness of online product recommendations : the roles of warranting theory and credibility
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