During source remembering, selectively emphasizing one source in the retrieval query "Is this item from Source A?" can yield different accuracy than emphasizing the alternate source in "Is this item from Source B?" even if those are the only two possible origins. One account of this cue-framing effect holds that it reflects different active monitoring strategies encouraged by the two cue frames...

Although research has shown that statistical information can support children's inferences about specific psychological causes of others' behavior, previous work leaves open the question of how children interpret statistical information in more ambiguous situations. The current studies investigated the effect of specific verbal framing information on children's ability to infer mental states fr...

We continually need to make decisions, but it is clear that, in so doing, we do not act in accordance with strict rules of rationality. For example, the effect of framing (i.e. the choice of particular words to present a given set of facts) can influence our choices, which raises some serious questions about our real freedom of choice. An increasing body of literature on framing supports a tend...

2016 Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. Recently, Krupenye, Rosati & Hare (KRH henceforth) reported that bonobos and chimpanzees show 'human-like framing effects' in a food choice task [1]. Chimpanzees and bonobos could choose between a 'framed' option of fruit and an alternative option of peanuts (matched in expected value ...

2016 Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. Recently, Krupenye, Rosati & Hare (KRH henceforth) reported that bonobos and chimpanzees show 'human-like framing effects' in a food choice task [1]. Chimpanzees and bonobos could choose between a 'framed' option of fruit and an alternative option of peanuts (matched in expected value ...

This article reexamines the assumptions underlying the disease problem used by Tversky and Kahneman (1981) to illustrate gain– loss formulation effects. It is argued that their reported effect may have been due to asymmetries in the ambiguity of the sure and risky prospects and to the entanglement of two distinct types of formulation manipulations: one having to do with the expected outcomes th...

This research demonstrates the effect of framing on justice judgments. Presenting identical allocation situations in different modes of accomplishing the resource allocation, resulting in either positive (benefits) or negative (harms) outcomes, affects justice judgments. Two independent studies revealed that participants judged non-egalitarian principles (i.e., merit, ability, effort, need, and...

Framing a decision situation differently has affected behavior substantially in previous studies. This paper tests a framing effect in a field experiment at the University of Zurich. Each semester, every student has to decide whether to contribute to two social funds. Students were randomly informed that a high percentage of the student population contributed (or, equivalently, that a low perce...