Effects of Online Health Sources on Credibility and Behavioral Intentions

By Yifeng Hu, Shyam Sundar. Communication Research, 2010

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Subfields: Communication, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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"Highly Recommended!" The Content Characteristics and Perceived Usefulness of Online Consumer Reviews (2011, methodology): “…online 32 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 17 (2011) 19–38 © 2011 International Communication Association messages in reference not only to the individual contributor of that information, but also to the website the message derives from (Bronner & De Hoog, 2011; Hu & Sundar, 2010).”
The influence of perceived credibility on purchase intention via competence and authenticity (2020, background): “Researchers have expanded the concept of credibility to other constructs such as source credibility (Filieri, 2016; Filieri et al., 2015) and message credibility (Filieri, 2016; Hu and Sundar, 2010; Tormala and Petty, 2004).”
Trust and Credibility in Web-Based Health Information: A Review and Agenda for Future Research (2017, background): “Hu and Sundar [103] showed that websites are preferred to bulletin boards, home pages, and blogs, and credibility was strongly associated with users’ perceptions of the relevance of the message associated to a certain source.”
Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: A conceptual framework (2018, background): “Defined as the extent to which an individual perceives a stimulus to be believable, credibility has been explicated as a function of three dimensions: message, medium, and source (Hu and Sundar, 2010; Kiousis, 2001; Metzger et al., 2003).”
A Little Bird Told Me, So I Didn't Believe It: Twitter, Credibility, and Issue Perceptions (2012, background): “In a study of health messages, Hu and Sundar (2010) considered both the originating source (e.g., a doctor or layperson) and the selecting source (e.g., a specific Web site, blog, or personal page).”
Motivated Processing (2015, background): “Research into readers’ evaluations of news usually considers credibility (Bucy, 2003); the credibility of health information also is a notable concern for health researchers (Hu & Sundar, 2010).”