Table 1.

Adapted credibility scale showing paired anchor characteristics for competence, caring, and trustworthiness (Cronbach alpha for the scale=.88). Two changes were made to the original validated scale^a,b.

Competence	Caring	Trustworthiness
Novice/Expert	Insensitive/Sensitive	Phoney/Genuine
Unintelligent/Intelligent	Not understanding/Understanding	Unethical/Ethical
Incompetent/Competent	Self-centered/Unselfish	Untrustworthy/Trustworthy
Uninformed/Informed	Unconcerned/Concerned	Dishonest/Honest
Dima/Bright	Uncaring/Caring	Immoral/Moral
Untrained/Trained	Doesn’t care about me/Cares about meb	Dishonourable/Honourable

^aDim replaced the original adjective, Stupid.

^bThis pair was removed from the scale owing to irrelevance to our study scenarios.