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Meta-information, and time: factors in human decision making
Higgins M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science50 (2):132-139,1999.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Oct 1 1999

Meta-information (information about information) is one of theunderappreciated aspects of the equation determining the impact ofinformation on decisions. Source credibility, that is, the weight givento a sender of information, is one type of meta-information. In thispaper, the effect of information’s source credibility on the way theinformation is used, and consequently on the decision, is studied. Thiseffect is examined under two conditions, namely, with and without timeconstraints. The experiment performed confirms that both sourcecredibility and time conditions independently and significantly affectedthe decision process. However, when source credibility and timeconditions were analyzed concurrently, the effect of source credibilityweakened. Implications of these findings for the dissemination ofinformation in organizations are briefly discussed.

Reviewer:  E. N. El-Sayed Review #: CR127439 (99100786)
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