Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement

Reliance on the Internet as a source of information has increased dramatically in recent years among information seekers.The reliability of information on the Internet can sometimes be questionable due to the absence of an editorial function.Users need to carefully consider the quality of the inform...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Rahayu, Wang, Jieyu, Hercegfi, Karoly, Komlodi, Anita
Other Authors: Smith, Michael J.
Format: Book Section
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
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author Ahmad, Rahayu
Wang, Jieyu
Hercegfi, Karoly
Komlodi, Anita
author2 Smith, Michael J.
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Ahmad, Rahayu
Wang, Jieyu
Hercegfi, Karoly
Komlodi, Anita
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description Reliance on the Internet as a source of information has increased dramatically in recent years among information seekers.The reliability of information on the Internet can sometimes be questionable due to the absence of an editorial function.Users need to carefully consider the quality of the information before using it.The goal of this research was to study the process of credibility evaluation by users.We examined how personality styles influence the way people make credibility judgments when they are browsing online.Our results show that thinkers’ evaluation style were more fact based than intuitive users who relied more on their initial impression and prior experience with the websites.Perceivers gathered information from various sources before trusting information and forming perception on the credibility of authors and websites.Lastly the judgers tend to formed conclusions quickly.This resulted to filtering credible web sites based on the format and layout of the websites.
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spelling uum-173912016-03-01T00:54:50Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/17391/ Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement Ahmad, Rahayu Wang, Jieyu Hercegfi, Karoly Komlodi, Anita T Technology (General) Reliance on the Internet as a source of information has increased dramatically in recent years among information seekers.The reliability of information on the Internet can sometimes be questionable due to the absence of an editorial function.Users need to carefully consider the quality of the information before using it.The goal of this research was to study the process of credibility evaluation by users.We examined how personality styles influence the way people make credibility judgments when they are browsing online.Our results show that thinkers’ evaluation style were more fact based than intuitive users who relied more on their initial impression and prior experience with the websites.Perceivers gathered information from various sources before trusting information and forming perception on the credibility of authors and websites.Lastly the judgers tend to formed conclusions quickly.This resulted to filtering credible web sites based on the format and layout of the websites. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Smith, Michael J. Salvendy, Gavriel 2011 Book Section PeerReviewed Ahmad, Rahayu and Wang, Jieyu and Hercegfi, Karoly and Komlodi, Anita (2011) Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6771 (VI). Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 521-527. ISBN 978-3-642-21792-0 http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_59 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_59 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21793-7_59
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Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title_full Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title_fullStr Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title_full_unstemmed Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title_short Different people different styles: Impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
title_sort different people different styles impact of personality style in web sites credibility judgement
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