An Examination of Factors That Affect the Credibility of Online Health Information Export

@article{citeulike:869963, abstract = {The study reported in this article examined the effect of street address and external links on perceptions of credibility of a Web page. The study attempted to determine how readers process these cues by drawing on key theories in both technical communication and psychology, including the Elaboration Likelihood Model. The article includes a review of relevant literature on which the experiment reported here was based, hypotheses concerning the expected outcomes of the experiment, the methodology, the results, and a discussion of the results. Finally, conclusions and implications for future research are discussed.}, author = {Freeman, Krisandra S. and Spyridakis, Jan H.}, citeulike-article-id = {869963}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/tc/2004/00000051/00000002/art00006}, keywords = {credibility, health, heuristics, web\_epistemology}, month = {May}, pages = {239--263}, posted-at = {2006-09-26 10:57:54}, priority = {3}, title = {An Examination of Factors That Affect the Credibility of Online Health Information}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/tc/2004/00000051/00000002/art00006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:869963 L3 - citeulike-article-id:869963 N2 - The study reported in this article examined the effect of street address and external links on perceptions of credibility of a Web page. The study attempted to determine how readers process these cues by drawing on key theories in both technical communication and psychology, including the Elaboration Likelihood Model. The article includes a review of relevant literature on which the experiment reported here was based, hypotheses concerning the expected outcomes of the experiment, the methodology, the results, and a discussion of the results. Finally, conclusions and implications for future research are discussed. EP - 263 TI - An Examination of Factors That Affect the Credibility of Online Health Information SP - 239 KW - credibility KW - health KW - heuristics KW - web_epistemology AU - Freeman, Krisandra AU - Spyridakis, Jan UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/stc/tc/2004/00000051/00000002/art00006 ER -