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epistemic authority: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

a source's perceived capacity to provide valid knowledge, which governs how much people rely on that source's information.

In social psychology, epistemic authority refers to a source's perceived capacity to provide valid knowledge, which governs how much people rely on that source's information. This meaning comes from Kruglanski (2005) in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.[1]

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References

Kruglanski, A. W., Raviv, A., Bar-Tal, D., Sharvit, K., Ellis, S., Bar, R., Pierro, A., & Mannetti, L. (2005). Says Who?: Epistemic Authority Effects in Social Judgment. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (pp. 345-392). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2601(05)37006-7

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