What makes professors credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs

• Main Authors: ZHU, Luke, AQUINO, Karl, VADERA, Abhijeet K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: demographics; ideology; status; social cognition; social dominance; Higher Education; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5019; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6018/viewcontent/Zhu_et_al_What_makes_professors_credible.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Five studies are conducted to examine how ideology and perceptions regarding gender, race, caste, and affiliation status affect how individuals judge researchers' credibility. Support is found for predictions that individuals judge researcher credibility according to their egalitarian or elitis...