College Students' Credibility Judgments in the Information-Seeking Process

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Sourcing in Text Comprehension: a Review of Interventions Targeting Sourcing Skills (2018, unknown): “For example, people seem to be more concerned about source credibility when searching for health-related information than for product-related information, indicating that the potential consequences of the information use may impact the credibility evaluation (Rieh & Hilligoss, 2007).”
Trust Online: Young Adults' Evaluation of Web Content (2010, background): “…users claim to do in order to find credible information online (e.g., Fallows 2005; Flanagin & Metzger, 2000; Metzger, Flanagin, & Zwarun, 2003), less common is research that compares actual and reported behavior (e.g., Flanagin & Metzger, 2007b; Freeman & Spyridakis, 2004; Rieh & Hilligoss, 2007).”
Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Construct, heuristics, and interaction in context (2008, background): “Rather, credibility is seen as relative to the social context in which information seeking is pursued and credibility judgments are made (Rieh & Hilligoss, 2007).”
Reading Into the Future: Competence for the 21st Century (2012, background): “, & Rouet, J. F. (2011). The role of epistemic beliefs in the comprehension of multiple expository texts: Toward an integrated model.”