Framing effect is a cognitive bias referring to the phenomenon that people respond differently to different but objectively equivalent descriptions of the same problem. By measuring event-related potentials, the present study aimed to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the framing effect, especially how the negative and positive frames influence the outcome processing in our brain. Pa...

Empirically observed cognitive biases raise a challenge for the more formal and normative approach to rationality. Logicians, when facing these cases, can be led to reflect on some basic principles of theirs. Framing effects have been defined in terms of an intensional phenomenon (Schick, 1997). Framing effects can basically be defined as such: they occur when equivalent descriptions of a decis...

Framing, the effect of context on cognitive processes, is a prominent topic of research in psychology and public opinion research. Research on framing has traditionally relied on controlled experiments and manually annotated document collections. In this paper we present a method that allows for quantifying the relative strengths of competing linguistic frames based on corpus analysis. This met...

Many previous experiments document that behavior in multi-person settings responds to the name of the game and the labeling of strategies. With a few exceptions, these studies cannot tell whether frames affect preferences or beliefs. In three large experiments, we investigate whether social framing effects are also present in Dictator games. Since only one of the subjects makes a decision, the ...

This study reports on an experiment that examined the framing effect on online consumer purchase intention. A 2 (attribute framing: positive/negative) x 2 (warning: text-based/graphic-based) x 2 (brand familiarity: familiar/unfamiliar) x 2 (product type: utilitarian/hedonic product) online experiment was conducted. The results demonstrate a significant framing effect, in that subjects in the po...

There is a lack of research on parent abuse in the UK and a lack of research on the overlap between domestic violence and parent abuse internationally. This article explores why this is the case. Findings suggest that conceptual conflicts in defining both concepts, in framing children’s safety as subsumed under mothers’ safety and the desire to challenge deterministic ‘cycle of violence’ models...