The objective of this paper is to study some new analytical properties of credibility functions. We first discuss the continuity of credibility functions, and establish the sufficient and necessary conditions for the right continuity and left continuity of credibility functions. Furthermore, we study the absolute continuity of credibility functions and obtain some sufficient conditions for the ...

several studies and researches have been conducted in the world since 1950 to assess and evaluate the media news credibility, and in this regard the researches tried to investigate the media news from different angles. the finding of any such researches and studies quite indicate that the credibility is a multidimensional construct and thus, a reliable and successful survey in this connection i...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 1 . Credibility and inflation expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A . Analytical underpinnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 B . Policies to achieve credibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Witness credibility is important for establishing testimonial value. The story model posits that people construct narratives from evidence but does not explain how credibility is assessed. Formal approaches use Bayesian networks (BN) to represent legal evidence. Recent empirical work suggests people might also reason using qualitative causal networks. In two studies, participants read a realist...

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between both expert witness confidence and juror personality with expert witness credibility, as well as expert witness credibility with juror sentencing outcome. Participants were presented with one of three randomly assigned filmed scenarios depicting various levels of manipulated witness confidence. They then completed a sentenc...