What Makes Professors Appear Credible: The Effect of Demographic Characteristics and Ideological Beliefs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhu, Luke (Lei); Aquino, Karl; Vadera, Abhijeet K.
• 署名单位: University of Manitoba; University of British Columbia; Singapore Management University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000095
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 862-880
• 关键词: demographics; ideology; social cognition; social dominance; status

摘要

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.