Testing the adaptability of people's use of attribute frame information

The informational leakage account of attribute framing effects proposes that a communicator's choice frame provides value, such different frames are not informationally equivalent. Across five studies communicating food risks, we investigated the adaptability communication recipients' (our participants) use information by manipulating degree to which communicator ostensibly had over how was framed. Within-participants were observed across all conditions studies. Only in Study 4 (the only study manipulated within-participants) there any evidence for an attenuation where responsible Overall, regardless whether or driven value contained frame, people show little sensitivity situations is removed.