What makes professors appear credible: The effect of demographic characteristics and ideological beliefs.
通过五项实验发现，人们会根据自身平等主义或精英主义意识形态，以及研究者性别、种族、种姓和大学隶属等地位线索，来判断其可信度，进而影响对后续模糊事件的解读。
Five studies are conducted to examine how ideology and perceptions regarding gender, race, caste, and affiliation status affect how individuals judge researchers' credibility. Support is found for predictions that individuals judge researcher credibility according to their egalitarian or elitist ideologies and according to status cues including race, gender, caste, and university affiliation. Egalitarians evaluate low-status researchers as more credible than high-status researchers. Elitists show the opposite pattern. Credibility judgments affect whether individuals will interpret subsequent ambiguous events in accordance with the researcher's findings. Effects of diffuse status cues and ideological beliefs may be mitigated when specific status cues are presented to override stereotypes. (PsycINFO Database Record