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ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2017

The effect of abstract versus concrete framing on judgments of biological and psychological bases of behavior.

Nancy S Kim, Samuel G B Johnson, Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Joshua Knobe

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Article in Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nancy S KimDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, 125 Nightingale Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
Samuel G B JohnsonDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205 USA.
Woo-Kyoung AhnDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520-8205 USA.
Joshua KnobeDepartment of Philosophy, Yale University, 344 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511 USA.
Yale University · USNortheastern University · US

Funding

EFFECTS OF CAUSAL BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ON CATEGORIZATIONR01MH057737 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI AHN, WOO-KYOUNG · 1998 to 2010
$2.2M
Understanding/Promoting Mental Health Literacy Based on Biological ExplanationsR01HG007653 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI AHN, WOO-KYOUNG · 2013 to 2014
$824k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG007653NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH057737
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human behavior is frequently described both in abstract, general terms and in concrete, specific terms. We asked whether these two ways of framing equivalent behaviors shift the inferences people make about the biological and psychological bases of those behaviors. In five experiments, we manipulated whether behaviors are presented concretely (i.e. with reference to a specific person, instantiated in the particular context of that person's life) or abstractly (i.e. with reference to a category of people or behaviors across generalized contexts). People judged concretely framed behaviors to be less biologically based and, on some dimensions, more psychologically based than the same behaviors framed in the abstract. These findings held true for both mental disorders (Experiments 1 and 2) and everyday behaviors (Experiments 4 and 5), and yielded downstream consequences for the perceived efficacy of disorder treatments (Experiment 3). Implications for science educators, students of science, and members of the lay public are discussed.

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Causal attributionExplanationFraming effectPerson perceptionScience education

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