scholarly journals Characteristics of quantifiers moderate the framing effect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Liu Holford ◽  
Marie Juanchich ◽  
Miroslav Sirota
Keyword(s):  
Framing Effect ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Equivalent Description

The attribute framing effect, where people judge a quantity of an item more positively with a positively-described attribute (e.g., ‘75% lean’) than its negative, albeit normatively equivalent description (e.g., ‘25% fat’), is a robust phenomenon, which may be moderated under certain conditions. In this paper, we investigated the moderating effect of the characteristics of the quantifier term: its format (verbal, e.g., ‘high’, or numerical, e.g., ‘75%’) and magnitude (i.e., if it is a small or large quantity) using positive or negative synonyms of attributes (e.g., energy vs. calories). Over five pre-registered studies using a 2 (synonym, between-subjects: positive or negative) 2 (quantifier format, between-subjects: verbal or numerical) 2 (quantifier magnitude, within-subjects: small or large) mixed design, we manipulated quantifier format and magnitude orthogonally for synonyms with differing valence. We also tested two mechanisms for the framing effect: whether the effect was mediated by the affect associated with the frame, and whether participants inferred the speaker to be positive about the target. We found a framing effect with synonyms that was reversed in direction for the small (vs. large) quantifiers, but not significantly moderated by quantifier format. Both the affect associated with the frame and the inferred level of speaker positivity partially mediated the framing effect, and the level of mediation varied with quantifier magnitude. These results suggest that the magnitude of the quantifier modifies one’s evaluation of the frame, and the mechanism for people’s evaluations in a framing situation may differ for small and large quantifiers.

scholarly journals Focus to an attribute with verbal or numerical quantifiers affects the attribute framing effect.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Xiaodan Liu ◽  
Marie Juanchich ◽  
Miroslav Sirota
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
Framing Effects ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Lean Meat ◽  
Past Work ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Positive Attribute ◽  
Better Than

People find positive attribute frames (e.g., 75% lean) more persuasive than negative ones (e.g., 25% fat). In three pre-registered experiments, we tested whether this effect would be magnified by using verbal quantifiers instead of numerical ones (e.g., ‘high % lean’ vs. ‘75% lean’). This moderating effect of quantifier format was predicted based on previous empirical work and two non-exclusive accounts of framing effects. First, verbal quantifiers are presumed to be a more intuitive format than numerical quantifiers, so might predispose people more to judgement biases such as the framing effect. Second, verbal quantifiers draw a greater focus to the attributes they describe. This could provide a linguistic signal that the positive frame is better than the negative one. In three experiments, we manipulated the attribute frame (positive or negative) and the quantifier format (verbal or numerical) between-subjects, and quantity pairs (e.g., 5% fat and 95% lean or 25% fat and 75% lean) within-subjects. We also tested if participants focused more on the attributes in the frame, by measuring whether participants selected causal sentence completions about the beef that focused on why it had fat meat or lean meat. Results showed a robust framing effect, which was partially mediated by the focus of the sentence completions. However, the verbal format did not increase the magnitude of the framing effect. These results suggest that a focus on the attribute contributes to the framing effect, but contrary to past work, this focus is not different between verbal and numerical quantifiers.

Facial Identity Memory Is Enhanced When Sender’s Expression Is Congruent to Perceiver’s Experienced Emotion

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 892-908
Author(s):  
Marilyn Mendolia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Identity Recognition ◽  
Facial Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Experienced Emotion

The role of the social context in facial identity recognition and expression recall was investigated by manipulating the sender’s emotional expression and the perceiver’s experienced emotion during encoding. A mixed-design with one manipulated between-subjects factor (perceiver’s experienced emotion) and two within-subjects factors (change in experienced emotion and sender’s emotional expression) was used. Senders’ positive and negative expressions were implicitly encoded while perceivers experienced their baseline emotion and then either a positive or a negative emotion. Facial identity recognition was then tested using senders’ neutral expressions. Memory for senders previously seen expressing positive or negative emotion was facilitated if the perceiver initially encoded the expression while experiencing a positive or a negative emotion, respectively. Furthermore, perceivers were confident of their decisions. This research provides a more detailed understanding of the social context by exploring how the sender–perceiver interaction affects the memory for the sender.

scholarly journals The impact of threat of shock on the framing effect and temporal discounting: executive functions unperturbed by acute stress?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver J Robinson ◽  
Rebecca L Bond ◽  
Jonathan P Roiser
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Bayes Factor ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Subjective Effects ◽  
Temporal Discounting ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Executive Decision Making ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Decision Making Biases

Anxiety and stress-related disorders constitute a large global health burden, but are still poorly understood. Prior work has demonstrated clear impacts of stress upon basic cognitive function: biasing attention towards unexpected and potentially threatening information and instantiating a negative affective bias. However, the impact that these changes have on higher-order, executive, decision-making processes is unclear. In this study we examined the impact of a translational within-subjects stress induction (threat of unpredictable shock) on two well-established executive decision-making biases: the framing effect (N=83), and temporal discounting (N=36). In both studies, we demonstrate a) clear subjective effects of stress, and b) clear executive decision-making biases but c) no impact of stress on these decision-making biases. Indeed, Bayes factor analyses confirmed substantial preference for decision-making models that did not include stress. We posit that while stress may induce subjective mood change and alter low-level perceptual and action processes (Robinson et al., 2013b) , some higher-level executive processes remain unperturbed by these impacts. As such, although stress can induce a transient affective biases and altered mood, these need not result in poor financial decision-making.

Shifts in Force Perception Threshold in Laparoscopic Surgery with Experience

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 636-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zhou ◽  
J. Perreault ◽  
S.D. Schwaitzberg ◽  
C.G.L. Cao
Keyword(s):  
Laparoscopic Surgery ◽  
Haptic Perception ◽  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Detection Time ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Perception Threshold ◽  
Friction Forces ◽  
Force Perception ◽  
Within Subjects

In laparoscopic surgery, the surgeon receives limited haptic feedback and relies on visual feedback to judge the amount of force applied to tissues. It has been shown that friction forces inherent in the instrumentation increased the haptic perception threshold of naive subjects. A controlled experiment was conducted to examine the effects of experience on force perception threshold in a simulated tissue-probing task. Fourteen subjects participated in a mixed design experiment, with friction, vision, and tissue softness as independent within-subjects factors, experience as an independent between-subjects factor, and applied force and detection time as dependent measures. Higher thresholds and longer detection times were observed when friction was present. Experienced surgeons applied a greater force than novices, but were quicker to detect contact with tissue, suggesting that experience allowed surgeons to perform more efficiently while keeping within the limits of safety.

scholarly journals Reproducible Tables in Psychology Using the apaTables Package

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Stanley ◽  
Jeffrey R. Spence
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Reproducible Research ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Multiple Regressions ◽  
Microsoft Word ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mean Differences

Growing awareness of how susceptible research is to errors, coupled with well-documented replication failures, has caused psychological researchers to move toward open science and reproducible research. In this Tutorial, to facilitate reproducible psychological research, we present a tool that creates reproducible tables that follow the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) style. Our tool, apaTables, automates the creation of APA-style tables for commonly used statistics and analyses in psychological research: correlations, multiple regressions (with and without blocks), standardized mean differences, N-way independent-groups analyses of variance (ANOVAs), within-subjects ANOVAs, and mixed-design ANOVAs. All tables are saved as Microsoft Word documents, so they can be readily incorporated into manuscripts without manual formatting or transcription of values.

Lying to patients: Ethics of deception in nursing

2020 ◽  
pp. 147775092097710
Author(s):  
Drew A Curtis ◽  
Jennifer M Braziel ◽  
Robert A Redfearn ◽  
Jaimee Hall
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Ethical Code ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Design Factor ◽  
The Core ◽  
Multidimensional Ethics Scale ◽  
Within Subjects

While the ethical use of deception has been discussed in literature, the ethics and acceptability of nursing deception has yet to be studied. The current study examined nurses’ and nursing students’ ratings of the ethics and acceptability of nursing deception. We predicted that nurses and nursing students would rate a truthful vignette as more ethical than a deceptive vignette. We also predicted that participants would rate nursing deception as unethical and unacceptable. A mixed design was used to examine ethics scores as a within-subjects factor and order as a between-groups design factor. A total of 131 nurses and nursing students were recruited from university nursing programs and hospitals in Texas. Participants were provided with a truthful vignette and deceptive vignette and used the Multidimensional Ethics Scale-Revised 1 to rate each vignette. Participants also completed the Lies in Nursing Ethics Questionnaire. The truthful nursing vignette was rated as more ethical than the deceptive vignette. Results indicated that most participants rated nursing deception as unethical, unacceptable, and a violation of the ANA ethical code. Some participants deemed that nursing deception may be acceptable within some cases. Age and years of experience were not related to the perceived ethics and acceptability of nursing deception. Nurses and nursing students believe that using deception with patients is unethical and unacceptable. However, some participants believed that deception may be warranted within some cases. These findings may reflect nurses’ placing the patient at the core of their values and viewing honesty as important for the nurse-patient relationship. Further implications and directions are discussed.

Changes of Heart: The Switch-Value Method for Assessing Value Uncertainty

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie K. John ◽  
Baruch Fischhoff
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Prospect Theory ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Treatment Risk ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Change Order ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
Task Mastery ◽  
Initial Choice

Background. Medical choices often evoke great value uncertainty, as patients face difficult, unfamiliar tradeoffs. Those seeking to aid such choices must be able to assess patients’ ability to reduce that uncertainty, to reach stable, informed choices. Objective. The authors demonstrate a new method for evaluating how well people have articulated their preferences for difficult health decisions. The method uses 2 evaluative criteria. One is internal consistency, across formally equivalent ways of posing a choice. The 2nd is compliance with principles of prospect theory, indicating sufficient task mastery to respond in predictable ways. Method. Subjects considered a hypothetical choice between noncurative surgery and palliative care, posed by a brain tumor. The choice options were characterized on 6 outcomes (e.g., pain, life expectancy, treatment risk), using a drug facts box display. After making an initial choice, subjects indicated their willingness to switch, given plausible changes in the outcomes. These changes involved either gains (improvements) in the unchosen option or losses (worsening) in the chosen one. A 2 × 2 mixed design manipulated focal change (gains v. losses) within subjects and change order between subjects. Results. In this demonstration, subjects’ preferences were generally consistent 1) with one another: with similar percentages willing to switch for gains and losses, and 2) with prospect theory, requiring larger gains than losses, to make those switches. Conclusion. Informed consent requires understanding decisions well enough to articulate coherent references. The authors’ method allows assessing individuals’ success in doing so.

The Impact of User Biases Toward a Virtual Human’s Skin Tone on Triage Errors Within a Virtual World for Emergency Management Training

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 2057-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Zipp ◽  
Tyler Krause ◽  
Scotty D. Craig*
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Skin Tone ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Ethnic Biases ◽  
The Impact

Biases influence the decisions people make in everyday life, even if they are unaware of it. This behavior transfers into social interactions in virtual environments. These systems are becoming an increasingly common platform for training, so it is critical to understand how biases will impact them. The present study investigates the effect of the ethnicity bias on error behaviors within a virtual world for medical triage training. Two between subjects variables, participant skin tone (light, dark) and avatar skin tone (light, dark), and one within subjects variable, agent/patient skin tone (light, dark), were manipulated to create a 2 X 2 X 2 mixed design with four conditions. Effects on errors were observed on errors made while helping patient (agents). Participants made considerably more errors while triaging dark-skinned agents which increased the amount of time spent on them, in comparison to light-skinned agents. Within a virtual world for training, people apply general ethnic biases against dark-skinned individuals, which is important to consider when designing such systems because the biases could impact the effectiveness of the training.

Decision Statistic Mapping and Number of Information Dimensions on Decision Making with Graphical Displays

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (18) ◽  
pp. 1503-1507
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Mitchell ◽  
David W. Biers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Graphical Display ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Decision Statistic ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
Emergent Feature ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Feature Theory ◽  
Intermediate Performance ◽  
Bar Graphs

This study sought to: (1) analytically separate the components of a graphical display which contributed to performance on integrated and separable tasks; and (2) determine the effect of the number of dimensions of information which had to be integrated. To that end, the study employed a 7 × 3 mixed design with seven displays manipulated between-subjects and the number of information dimensions (three, six, and nine) manipulated within-subjects. The seven displays examined included two bar graphs (non-object and object formats), two midline displays (non-object and object formats), a direct graphical display, and two numerical displays (numerical separable and numerical integrative). Based upon propositions generated from emergent feature theory, the ability to integrate information in these displays should be a function of the faithfulness, saliency, and directness of mapping the decision statistic onto the display. Results indicated that the displays which directly represented the integrated decision, the numerical integrative and the direct graphical displays, resulted in the best performance. Intermediate performance was obtained on those displays (i.e. the object bar graph, the non-object midline, and the object midline) which incorporated faithfulness, saliency, or both, respectively. The worst performance on the integrated task was exhibited for those displays (i.e. the numerical separable and the non-object bar) which did not represent directness, faithfulness, or saliency. For both the integrated and separable tasks, accuracy increased as the number of information dimensions increased. The unexpected direction of this effect was attributed to subjects” investing more resources in performing the task at the six or nine cue levels due to the perceived increase in difficulty of the task.

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