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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Framing Effect"”.
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Numeric Conversions Ameliorate the Framing Effect
… or negative light. This bias is known as the framing effect. Previous research has shown that high numeracy, the ability to understand simple mathematical and probabilistic concepts, makes such framing effects smaller, at least when numbers are involved. Here, we test the possibility that this …
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Resonance and Elaboration: the Framing Effect of Chinese Product Safety Issue Coverage
… to report China-related issues, and tests the effects of framing via an experiment. For the first part, master themes are extracted via a meta-analysis of published research papers, while framing devices are isolated via a textual analysis of New York Times articles about China. Then symbolic …
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Using a Three-Dimensional Model to Understand Age Differences in the Framing Effect
… conditions to investigate susceptibility to the framing effect among younger, middle-aged, and older adults. Participants were instructed to pay attention to the facts and numbers, to use their gut feelings, or to use their previous experiences to respond to two decision-making scenarios …
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The Effects of Security Framing, Time Pressure, and Brand Familiarity on Risky Mobile Application Downloads
<p>The current study examined the effects of security system framing, time pressure, and brand familiarity on mobile application download behaviors, with an emphasis on risk taking. According to the Prospect Theory, people tend to engage in irrational decision making, and make qualitatively …
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Three Essays on Price Framing and Price Perceptions
… there is a substantial body of research on price framing and price perception, my research identifies and attempts to fill some important gaps in the existing research. In my first essay, I introduce a new price framing effect – the upper limit framing effect. This essay shows that framing the …
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Enlightening Experts: The Effect of Frames and Values on Expert Attitudes
This dissertation is an examination of the framing process among domain experts—that is, authorities in specific policy fields. Driving this inquiry is a seemingly simple argument: frames influence how experts use their values to evaluate framed policy issues. Issue frames lead experts to consider …
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Three Essays on Financial Economics
… investigated the role of semantic prosody in the framing effect in tax propensity and risk propensity. According to our findings, semantic prosody increases tax propensity and moderates the framing effect in risk propensity. Finally, using the data, several econometric models were developed to …
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Integrating dual-process and pragmatic theories for the processing of verbal and numerical food quantifiers
… 6-7 (Experiments 8-14) leverage the attribute framing effect, where positive frames (e.g., ‘energy’) are preferred to negative ones (e.g., ‘calories’), to compare dualprocess and pragmatic theories of quantifier processing. Overall, verbal quantifiers can increase the influence of informational …
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Using the Concepts of Framing and Loss Aversion to Answer Pertinent Questions on Cooperative Behaviors in Social Dilemmas
Two hypotheses, formulated using the concept of framing, were proposed in an attempt to understand better the behaviors of cooperators in social dilemmas. The first hypothesis was constructed in response to Schwartz-Shea and Simmon's (1995) criticism on the applicability of the framing concept to …
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Dual Process Models of Decision Making: An fMRI Investigation of Framing Effects and Individual Differences
… utilizing different experimental paradigms, framing effects provide a unique reflection of these dichotomies. Framing effects have been studied behaviorally for quite some time; however, only recently have investigators begun to examine the neurobiological basis for these effects. …
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The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence
<p>The framing effect is a cognitive bias in which the way a choice is presented influences decision-making. Individuals avoid risk when a scenario or choice is presented in a positive light or as a gain (e.g., lives will be saved, money will be gained). In contrast, because losses are more salient …
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The Effects of Goal Framing on Auditors' Use of a Decision Aid in Environments of Varied Risk
… auditor uses inclusion or elimination may have effectiveness and efficiency implications for the remainder of the analytical review process. The auditor must also contend with risk in the audit environment, which also may influence the manner in which the auditor reduces the lengthy list of …
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Framing's Influence on Maternal Acceptability of Off-Label Risperdal in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Treatment
This study used framing techniques to assess whether a prescriber’s description of drug treatment influences female caregivers’ acceptability of a psychotropic prescribed to help manage their child’s attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) symptoms. Framing is a rhetorical construct that may …
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Assessing values for multiple and conflicting uses of freshwater in the Canterbury region
… of these focused on the citizen versus consumer framing effect where different motivational point-of-views impact on respondent’s preferences. A split-sampling approach was applied where the respondents in one survey were asked to adopt a consumer’s point-of-view and the respondents in another …
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Kognitivní zkreslení v právním myšlení
Kognitivní zkreslení v právním myšlení Abstrakt Tato diplomová práce se věnuje problematice kognitivních zkreslení v právním myšlení - čili propojení aktuálních poznatků z oblasti psychologie a behaviorální ekonomie s různými odvětvími práva. Jejím cílem je seznámit čtenáře s vybranými iluzemi …