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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022

Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes.

Mengna Liu, Jinshi Chen

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Mengna LiuCenter for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
Jinshi ChenCenter for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.

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Introduction: With the frequent occurrences of telecom fraud crimes in China, it is very necessary and urgent to carry out effective anti-telefraud risk communication. In the present study, we investigated the role of metaphorical framing in shaping people's attitudes toward telecom fraud in anti-telefraud messages through two experiments. Methods: Participants ( Results: The results showed that participants without prior experience with telecom fraud perceived severity as significantly higher in the war-framing condition than in the issue-framing condition. Besides, the framing effects were only detected in Experiment 2 where the short anti-telefraud message with limited metaphorical information was provided. Discussion: The study reveals that even one metaphorical word is sufficient to build a framework for thinking about complex concepts, like telecom fraud, and prior experience with a certain risk can serve as a moderator of metaphorical framing on people's risk perceptions. It is also found that the effectiveness of metaphors may be more salient in the genres of a short length such as anti-telefraud banners. The study can shed light on public legal educators whose job is to use effective ways to communicate telecom fraud risk to citizens.

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anti-telefraud messagesdisease metaphormetaphorical framingrisk communicationtelecom fraudwar metaphor

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