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The impact of perceived threat of infectious disease on the framing effect

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.kuauthorSevi, Barış
dc.contributor.kuauthorEskenazi, Terry
dc.contributor.kuprofileMaster Student
dc.contributor.kuprofileFaculty Member
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteGRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
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dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:34:43Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe framing effect is a heuristic bias, where the way a question is presented affects people's response to it. This study (n=924) investigated the influence of the behavioral immune system on the framing effect. We tested the changes in people's responses towards two frames (i.e., losses and gains) when presented with a threat of disease and as a function of their perceived vulnerability to disease (PVD) level. After being randomly assigned to one of three priming conditions-disease threat, negative threat, and no-threat-participants were presented with one of the two-frame versions (gain or loss) of the damaged painting problem where they chose between a safe and a risky option. Finally, participants responded to the PVD scale and to demographic questions. Results revealed that when people were primed with disease threat, those with lower PVD had a higher likelihood to take risks in the gain frame and a lower likelihood in the loss frame. This effect was not observed when participants were primed with negative threat or no-threat, nor for those participants with high levels of PVD. This finding suggests a specific effect of disease threat on the framing effect.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue3
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.volume4
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s40806-018-0145-9
dc.identifier.eissn2198-9885
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dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40806-018-0145-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/12389
dc.identifier.wos614892200015
dc.keywordsBehavioral immune system
dc.keywordsFraming effect
dc.keywordsPerceived vulnerability to disease
dc.keywordsDecision-making
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSpringernature
dc.sourceEvolutionary Psychological Science
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.titleThe impact of perceived threat of infectious disease on the framing effect
dc.typeJournal Article
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