Abstract Mindsets Increase Believability of Spatially Distant Online Messages
Growing evidence from online credibility research reveals that online users rely on heuristic processes to evaluate the credibility of online information. The current paper, which is based on the construal level theory, proposes that congruency between the psychological distance of a stimulus and th...
Main Authors: | Hande Sungur, Tilo Hartmann, Guido Matthijs Van Koningsbruggen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01056/full |
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