We examined the effects of framing and order of presentation on professional philosophers’ judgments about a moral puzzle case (the “trolley problem”) and a version of the Tversky & Kahneman “Asian disease” scenario. Professional philosophers exhibited substantial framing effects and order effects, and were no less subject to such effects than was a comparison group of non-philosopher academic ...

INTRODUCTION Message framing, a strategy of advertising message construction, is widely adopted in various forms of brand advertising campaigns. The hedonic principles of approach (happiness) and avoidance (pain), well established in motivation psychology, lay down the theoretical foundation upon which the core concept of message framing is developed (Wedell, 1997). The positive framing, center...

Framing effects research addresses how frames in the news media affect cognitions, attitudes, and preferences. A growing amount of research is devoted to the question which individual and contextual variables can enhance, limit or obliterate framing effects. However, the fundamental question whether framing effects may vary depending on the particular issue at stake has not been addressed. Base...

Public opinion research demonstrates that citizens’ opinions depend on elite rhetoric and interpersonal conversations. Yet, we continue to have little idea about how these two forces interact with one another. In this article, we address this issue by experimentally examining how interpersonal conversations affect (prior) elite framing effects. We find that conversations that include only commo...

We examined the effects of framing and order of presentation on professional philosophers' judgments about a moral puzzle case (the "trolley problem") and a version of the Tversky & Kahneman "Asian disease" scenario. Professional philosophers exhibited substantial framing effects and order effects, and were no less subject to such effects than was a comparison group of non-philosopher academic ...

Framing—portraying an issue from one perspective to the necessary exclusion of alternative perspectives—is a central concept in political communication. It is also a powerful political tool, as evidenced through experiments and single-issue studies beyond the lab. Yet compared to its significance, we know very little about framing as a generalizable phenomenon. Do framing dynamics, such as the ...

I examine the inXuence of the framing of investment portfolios on the risk-taking behavior of individual investors. Investment portfolios can be presented either in aggregated or segregated framing, meaning that either the overall distribution or the single investments of portfolios are displayed. Previous studies have found that simple lottery portfolios are more attractive if their overall di...

A framing of an oriented trivial bundle is a homotopy class of sections of the associated oriented frame bundle. This paper is a study of the framings of the tangent bundle τM of a smooth closed oriented 3-manifold M , often referred to simply as framings of M . We shall also discuss stable framings and 2-framings of M , that is framings of ε ⊕ τM (where ε is an oriented line bundle) and 2τM = ...

It is well-known that a knot in a contact manifold (M, C) transverse to a trivialized contact structure possesses the natural framing given by the first of the trivialization vectors along the knot. If the Euler class eC ∈ H (M) of C is nonzero, then C is nontrvivializable and the natural framing of transverse knots does not exist. We construct a new framing-type invariant of transverse knots c...