The effect of self epistemic authority on compliance with expert recommendations

• Authors: Katarzyna Stasiuk , Renata Maksymiuk , Yoram Bar-Tal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study examines the interaction effect between source epistemic authority (EA) and self epistemic authority (SEA) on the intention to follow the source’s recommendation. The results showed that high SEA subjects were more likely to follow the recommendation if its source had high EA and less likely if the source’s EA was low. The results are discussed using the Lay Epistemology framework.

Keywords

EN

epistemic authority; recommendation; compliance; Lay Epistemology

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 174-178

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-06-16

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Stasiuk

• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

author

Renata Maksymiuk

• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

author

Yoram Bar-Tal

• Tel - Aviv University, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2016-0020