Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
Five studies are conducted to examine how ideology and perceptions regarding gender, race, caste, and affiliation status affect how individuals judge researchers' credibility. Support is found for predictions that individuals judge researcher credibility according to their egalitarian or elitist ideologies and according to status cues including race, gender, caste, and university affiliation. Egalitarians evaluate low-status researchers as more credible than high-status researchers. Elitists show the opposite pattern. Credibility judgments affect whether individuals will interpret subsequent ambiguous events in accordance with the researcher's findings. Effects of diffuse status cues and ideological beliefs may be mitigated when specific status cues are presented to override stereotypes.
Keywords
demographics, ideology, status, social cognition, social dominance
Discipline
Higher Education | Organizational Behavior and Theory | Psychology
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume
101
Issue
6
First Page
862
Last Page
880
ISSN
0021-9010
Identifier
10.1037/apl0000095
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Citation
ZHU, Luke; AQUINO, Karl; and VADERA, Abhijeet K..
What makes professors credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs. (2016). Journal of Applied Psychology. 101, (6), 862-880.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5019
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https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000095
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