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Hellweg, Susan A. – 1976
Twenty-five groups, each consisting of one superior and three subordinates, participated in a problem-solving exercise to test the hypotheses that subordinates who are exposed to external conflict, in conjunction with their immediate superior, will perceive their immediate superior as more credible and more homophilous than those who are not…
Descriptors: Conflict, Credibility, Group Dynamics, Military Personnel
Hellweg, Susan A. – 1978
Undertaken in conjunction with the 1976 presidential election, this study examined perceptions of Gerald R. Ford against conceptualizations of the ideal political candidate. Questionnaires were administered to 321 undergraduates (both Republicans and Democrats) in order to measure perceived credibility and homophily of the ideal candidate and of…
Descriptors: College Students, Credibility, Elections, Political Affiliation
Ritter, Kurt; Hellweg, Susan A. – 1984
An important influence on a presidential candidate's debating style, the "incumbency factor," has been largely ignored by researchers. An analysis of the argumentative style of incumbents, based on the 1976 and 1980 presidential debates, has isolated three distinguishing characteristics: (1) presidential incumbents tend to avoid extended…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Content Analysis, Credibility, Debate
Hellweg, Susan A. – 1979
A study utilizing source credibility and homophily as a basis for analysis was designed to examine the conceptualization of the ideal political candidate. In addition, this conceptualization was examined across selected voter characteristics to determine if it varied on that basis. Questionnaires were administered to 390 college students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility, Elections
Hellweg, Susan A. – 1977
A study was designed to investigate the consequences of various coding strategies on the semantic differential as a function of responses to an ideal source in the prediction of overall credibility and homophily. The study was also intended to provide additional evidence for the disconfirmation of the underlying extremity assumption of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility, Elections, Measurement Techniques
Hellweg, Susan A.; King, Stephen W. – 1982
A study was conducted to examine the evaluative criteria or schemata that voters use in making decisions about competing candidates. More specifically, the study sought to determine (1) whether the criteria that voters employ differ between the candidates, and (2) the relative importance of various candidate-specific criteria in the voting…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research, Credibility, Decision Making
Hellweg, Susan A. – 1976
A study was designed to examine an underlying assumption regarding the use of the semantic differential in measuring the credibility and homophily of a communicator, namely, that responses to an ideal source position themselves at one extreme end of the scale, reflecting the monotonic function of the instrument such that the highest response…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility
