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Showing 1 to 20 of 1085 for “"Credibility"”.
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What causes credibility? : reputation, power, and assessments of credibility during crises
… that tomorrow's enemies will assess America's credibility on the basis of U.S. actions today. Is the reputation hypothesis true? Will our adversaries predict our future actions by looking at today's decisions? More generally, do decision makers predict their adversaries' actions in a crisis by …
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Robust credibility and Kalman filtering
Credibility theory is an experience rating technique in insurance used to combine an estimate of the expected claims of a contract with the estimate of the expected claims of a portfolio of similar contracts. However, the credibility estimate remains sensitive to large (outlying) claims. In this …
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The Presumption of Non-Credibility
… 11(d) creates and codifies a presumption of non-credibility on complainants. This reflects epistemic injustice and is especially problematic for survivors, because the issue becomes compounded by rape myths and testimonial injustice. The thesis engages in broader arguments around the call for …
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Instant credibility : an exploratory study of web site credibility through the application of communication and design theory
… design variables and the theory of source credibility.</p>
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Factors affecting the credibility of reference letters.
… investigate factors which affect the perceived credibility of letters of reference. More specifically, two factors, those being length of the letter and quality of writing style, are examined. The study questions whether longer or shorter reference letters have different levels of perceived …
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Perceived Credibility of Information Across Delivery Modalities
… delivery has an impact on its perceived credibility among college students of two age groups: (a) 25 years and younger and (b) over 25 years of age. A piece of fabricated information was formatted into three modalities; (a) face-to-face lecture (b) print via paper, and (c) print via World …
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Message variation and source credibility in advertising
… empirical literature on the effects of source credibility and message variation on persuasive communication. Much of the credibility literature on the persuasive effects of source has been contradictory, for four main reasons. First, the dimensions used to define credibility are often unclear. …
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Stereotypes and Perceptions of Child Witness Credibility
… examined factors that influence child witness credibility because it has the potential to influence case outcomes. This study investigated beliefs that impact perceptions of child witness credibility in cases of physical abuse. Participants (N = 95) were asked open ended questions inquiring …
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Credibility On Trial: A Narrative Hermeneutic Inquiry
Determining a sexual assault victim/complainant’s credibility remains a problematic practice during the legal process. Utilizing a narrative hermeneutic approach allows for the interpretation of how one participant (n=1) used their narrative from a first-person, lived-experience perspective to …
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Perceptions of airline website credibility: an Egyptian perspective
A website’s perceived credibility is a critical issue for consumers when making an online purchase. In general, customers prefer not to purchase items on websites until they feel confident in their credibility. This is critical for Egyptian users as they perceive a high level of risk when internet …
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Examining the Credibility of Story-Based Causal Methodologies
… arguments are made by evaluators to justify the credibility of story-based causal methodologies to evaluation stakeholders; and 2) from the perspective of evaluators, how do contextual factors influence whether story-based causal methodologies are perceived as credible by evaluation stakeholders? …
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Robust theory applied to Jewell's hierarchical credibility model
… theory is considered in Jewell's hierarchical credibility model. A comparison is made with the classical linear credibility models, Kunsch's model and Gisler & Reinhard's model.
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Credibility theory and experience rating in general insurance
… an experience rated premium is provided by credibility theory. Credibility theory is concerned with the weight to be given to the small amount recent individual experience as compared with the mass of the data from the past collective experience. This research was undertaken to review …
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Adjust Both: Adjusting Credibility Excesses for Epistemic Justice
… authors have thoroughly discussed the role of credibility deficits and the harms they cause for those receiving the deficits. In this literature, however, credibility excesses have not received as much attention owing to their tendency to be socially advantageous for those receiving them. In …
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