Source Credibility and Physiological Arousal: An Important Variable in the Credibility-Information Retention Relationship.

Steinfatt, Thomas M.; Roberts, Charles V., III

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ERIC Number: EJ282552

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Publication Date: 1983

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Source Credibility and Physiological Arousal: An Important Variable in the Credibility-Information Retention Relationship.

Steinfatt, Thomas M.; Roberts, Charles V., III

Southern Speech Communication Journal, v48 n4 p340-55 Sum 1983

Tested 54 college students who were rating videotaped speakers on trustworthiness and their tympanic temperature. Concluded that credibility operationalized as trustworthiness is related to physiological arousal, as measured by tympanic temperature. (PD)

Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Communication Research, Credibility, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Memory, Physical Characteristics, Public Speaking, Speech Communication, Temperature

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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