The health costs of colorectal cancer have increased over the years in Taiwan. The National Health Insurance Administration (NHI) and the Health Promotion Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in Taiwan advocate that people have to change their unhealthy behaviors; however, the number of patients of colorectal cancer is increasing annually. This research discussed the effe...

Surveys are sometimes viewed with suspicion when used to provide economic values, since they have been proved to be sensitive to framing effects. However, the extent to which those effects may vary between individuals has received little attention. Are some individuals less sensitive to framing effects than others ? How to detect them ? These are the questions addressed in this paper. We use th...

In a two-stage public goods experiment, we study the framing effect due to the adoption of a cultural context. Our results show a slight increase in the allocations of subjects’ endowments to the cultural good when the cultural context is implemented in the laboratory. In particular, in one treatment, the framing effect has a strong impact in the last two periods only. JEL Classification: A13, ...

A “framing effect” is usually said to occur when equivalent descriptions of a decision problem lead to systematically different decisions. Framing has been a major topic of research in the psychology of judgment and decision making and is widely viewed as carrying significant implications for the “Rationality Debate” (e.g., Shafir and LeBoeuf 2002). Framing effects are commonly taken as evidenc...

For Net-enhanced organizations (NEOs), business is conducted at a distance and risks are magnified. In effect, Internet buyers can solely rely on information provided by the Web sites to make decisions. Consequently, the way to present information favorable to the Internet business operators is very important. This study aims to understand whether positively and negatively framed messages resul...

We examined whether the classical framing effect observed with the Asian Disease problem could be reversed when people make decisions from experience. Ninety-five university students were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: Description, Sampling (where the participants were allowed to sample through the outcomes presented as a pack of cards) and Interactive (where the participants we...

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...

We use an experiment built into a series of surveys of Iowa voters during the 2008 Iowa Caucus campaign to test the effect of differing group framing labels on immigration policy preferences. We find that certain framing labels matter, but only among Republican partisans for whom the immigration issue is important. We also find that issue importance produces more conservative policy preferences...