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Exploring the Impact of Delivery Mistakes, Gender, and Empathic Concern on Source and Message Credibility

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Pages 1653-1672 | Published online: 11 Jan 2021
 

ABSTRACT

This study explores the impact of television news anchor delivery mistakes on message and source credibility evaluations and whether gender, news context, and empathic concern moderate this effect. The results of an experiment showed that viewers have the highest appraisal of anchors with perfect delivery, and evaluation suffers precipitously with increased mistakes. When evaluating short news clips, viewers were more tolerant of the female news anchor making three delivery mistakes than the male, but both genders suffered equally when the number of mistakes increased to five. The impact of delivery mistakes on credibility evaluations was consistent in both morning and evening news. Finally, viewers with a low level of empathetic concern reported a harsher view of anchors making mistakes than viewers with a high level of empathetic concern. However, experiences of parasocial interactions evaluation suffered the most in the three delivery mistakes condition and saw an increase in the five mistakes condition.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Survey Sampling International is an online sampling and digital data collection company for leading research organizations across the globe. Survey Sampling International merged with ResearchNow Inc. and was renamed to Dynata after the completion of this study.

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