Even simple framing effects are rational. (25th October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Flusberg, Stephen J.; Thibodeau, Paul H.; Holmes, Kevin J.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 45(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-10-25
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22000942
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Bermúdez persuasively argues that framing effects are not as irrational as commonly supposed. In focusing on the reasoning of individual decision-makers in complex situations, however, he neglects the crucial role of the social-communicative context for eliciting certain framing effects. We contend that many framing effects are best explained in terms of basic, rational principles of discourse processing and pragmatic reasoning.