… factors such as perceived therapist credibility, title of the therapist, office arrangement, … of
attitude similarity between the therapist and S would affect Ss’ perceptions of credibility and …

… attitude similarity on Mexican-American college students' ratings of perceived counselor
credibility… (1979) study by experimentally manipulating attitude similarity and by including sex of …

… It can be hypothesized that therapist and client … of their therapists' beliefs. On the one hand,
Strong's (1968)social influence theory suggests that clients should attribute more credibility to …

… attitudes, then the new attitudes and beliefs that one learns in counseling may have been
acquired from the counselor or therapist, whose attitudes … –therapist attitudinal similarity and …

Tested the effects of 2 levels of counselor similarity and expertness and 2 types of clients'
problems on perceptions of the counselor's competence in an analog study. The basis for client…

… are roughly twice as large as those for attitude and behavior change—but analogue
studies … of perceived credibility, which are also self-report measures of attitudes toward the …

… perceived credibility of helpers, that "the perceived credibility … therapist can affect the client's
evaluation of a therapist's trustworthiness. Thus, therapists' expertness and attitude similarity …

… effects of therapist credibility and patient-therapist similarity (… and the relationship between
patient attitude change and … attitude similarity & therapist credibility, prediction of attitude …

… Furthermore, similarity of attitude has been shown to influence positively credibility of source
… It, therefore, seems reasonable that a client's and therapist's similarity of values should exert …

… Focusing on similarities between patient examples and the observer does not support a
change in therapy expectations or attitudes through observation, while a positive video model …