Objective: The aim of the current study was to examine smokers’ beliefs towards the credibility of exercise and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) as cessation aids while partaking in a quit-smoking program. Method: A subsample (n = 149) of female smokers underwent a 14-week cessation program involving exercise and NRT. Credibility beliefs were collected at baseline (before quitting), week 5 (o...

Current research is mixed with regard to the question of how the credibility of information published on news websites compares with the credibility of information offered by the traditional news media, although evidence is scarce at this point. The main goal of this paper is to verify whether the rise and expansion of news websites brought about a change in journalists’ perceptions of media cr...

People increasingly use social media to get first-hand news and information. During disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and the tsunami in Japan people used social media to report injuries as well as send out their requests. During social movements such as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the Arab Spring, people extensively used social media to organize their events and spread the news. As more peopl...

OBJECTIVE Little is understood about how the public perceives exposure-based therapy (ET) for treating anxiety and trauma-related disorders or how ET rationales affect treatment credibility. Distinct approaches to framing ET are practiced, including those emphasized in traditional cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and the more recent inhibitory learning model. How...

The detection of deception in human speech is a difficult task but can be performed above chance level by human listeners even when only audio data is provided. Still, it is highly contested, which speech features could be used to help identify lies. In this study, we examined a set of phonetic and paralinguistic cues and their influence on the credibility of speech using an analysis-by-synthes...

Text articles with false claims, especially news, have recently become aggravating for the Internet users. These articles are in wide circulation and readers face difficulty discerning fact from fiction. Previous work on credibility assessment has focused on factual analysis and linguistic features. The task’s main challenge is the distinction between the features of true and false articles. In...

The (reputation for) competence of a central bank at doing its job makes monetary policy under discretion credible and transparent. Based on its reading of the state of the economy, the central bank announces its policy intentions to the public in a cheap-talk game. The precision of its private signal measures its competence. The fineness of the equilibrium message space measures its credibilit...

Credibility is everything for science, and it is built over time in both obvious and subtle ways. It is how we interact with colleagues and collaborators. It is how generously and openly we share reagents and how we mentor students and postdocs. It is how we review each other’s papers, and it is how we credit others’ work. It is the way we educate and inform the public that funds us. It is the ...

In this paper we introduce and study credibility-limited improvement operators. The idea is to accept the new piece of information if this information is judged credible by the agent, so in this case a revision is performed. When the new piece of information is not credible then it is not accepted (no revision is performed), but its plausibility is still improved in the epistemic state of the a...

A laboratory study was conducted to explore whether the presence of online user reviews, specifically its interaction with the credibility of information on the Website, has differential impact on younger and older adults’ attitude towards medication information on the Internet. Results showed that while there was age difference in how message contents on the Web page influenced credibility jud...