Witness credibility is important for establishing testimonial value. The story model posits that people construct narratives from evidence but does not explain how credibility is assessed. Formal approaches use Bayesian networks (BN) to represent legal evidence. Recent empirical work suggests people might also reason using qualitative causal networks. In two studies, participants read a realist...

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between both expert witness confidence and juror personality with expert witness credibility, as well as expert witness credibility with juror sentencing outcome. Participants were presented with one of three randomly assigned filmed scenarios depicting various levels of manipulated witness confidence. They then completed a sentenc...

The popularization of Web applications has given rise to new services every day, demanding mechanisms to ensure the credibility of these services. Since now, little has been done to measure and understand the credibility of services on this complex Web environment, which itself is a major research challenge. From the challenges related to the task of assigning a credibility value to an online s...

We consider an alternative to the usual credibility premium that arises from squared-error loss, namely, a so-called equitable credibility premium (Promislow and Young, 1999). We derive formulas for the credibility weight in certain cases and give sufficient conditions for exact credibility.

singapore is depicted to be the fastest growing telecommunications nation in asia. presently, all the members of the singapore banking industry have engaged in the use of information and communication technology as a platform for effective and efficient means of conducting financial transactions. this paper focuses on determining the level of users’ acceptance of the electronic banking services...

In this paper, we propose an ACT-R cognitive model for making credibility judgments about the credibility of Twitter authors. We abstracted the cognitive processes involved in three levels: attending to information on Web page, comprehending information to identify credibility cues, and integrating credibility cues to make a judgment. We represent basic knowledge required for making credibility...

Credibility is central to communication but often jeopardized by "credibility gaps." This is especially true for communication about corporate social responsibility (CSR). To date, no tool has been available to analyze stakeholders' credibility perceptions of CSR communication. This article presents a series of studies conducted to develop a scale to assess the perceived credibility of CSR repo...