Numbers do not add up! The pragmatic approach to the framing of medical treatments

Numbers do not add up! The pragmatic approach to the framing of medical treatments

The risky choice framing effect disclosed that presenting data in a loss scenario lead decision-makers towards risky choices. Conversely, a gain scenario prevents them from taking a risk. Framing effect robustness has been widely confirmed by psychological literature. However, the framing of medical...

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Main Authors: Laura Macchi, Edoardo Zulato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2021-05-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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the risky choice framing effect disclosed that presenting data in a loss scenario lead decision-makers towards risky choices. conversely
a gain scenario prevents them from taking a risk. framing effect robustness has been widely confirmed by psychological literature. however
the framing of medical treatments
based on mcneil et al. (1982) paradigm
raised both methodological doubts and contrasting evidence. our research aimed to investigate the presence and the nature of the framing effect in the mcneil et al. (1982) paradigm. in particular
we thought that the obtained switch of preferences across frames was due to a misleading formulation of the data given in a negative cumulative frequency format. we conducted three studies
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