framing-effect is the phenomenon by which the same objective information produces different judgments or choices depending on how it is presented — as a gain or as a loss, as a survival rate or mortality rate, as a cost or as a savings. The parameters are: (1) value equivalence between frames (the described outcomes are identical in magnitude), (2) valence shift in presentation (gain vs. loss frame), and (3) directional asymmetry (loss frames elicit risk-seeking, gain frames elicit risk-aversion). It persists through the architecture of human language and communication — the inescapability of some presentation over another — and through the design of decision environments (nudges, disclosures, default options) that exploit framing by making one frame dominant. [formal: effectus framingis | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.48]
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framing-effect
framing-effect is the phenomenon by which the same objective information produces different judgments or choices depending on how it is presented — as a gain or as a loss, as a survival rate or mortality rate, as a cost or as a savings. Th…
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Why it is in scope
A cognitive bias in human judgment: the tendency for people to react differently to the same information depending on how it is presented (framed). Human-made because it is a concept in psychology and behavioral economics that categorizes a systematic pattern of decision-making distortion, persisted through academic literature, teaching, and clinical practice.
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- framing-effecten · CANONICAL
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Framing-effect (epoch 0.99) is a newer, more specialized construct that emerged from the study of heuristic-based decision-making. Heuristic (epoch 0.31) is the older, more foundational concept. Framing effects describe how the presentation of options influences choices through heuristic processing — the concept of heuristics preceded and enabled the concept of framing effects.
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framing-effect is a specific cognitive bias wherein how an option is framed alters choices — it is a kind of cognitive-bias.
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The framing effect requires language to create different descriptions of equivalent information. Remove language right now and there is no way to present one thing as a gain versus a loss — frames are linguistic constructions. The effect exists only because language provides multiple valid descriptions of the same situation.
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