Framing is a motivated process

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Oct 25:45:e221. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000991.

Abstract

Frames group choices into categories, thus modifying the incentives for them. This effect makes framing itself a motivated choice rather than a neutral cognition. In particular, framing an inferior choice with a high short-term payoff as part of a broad category of choices recruits incentive to reject it; but this must be motivated by its being a test case.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Choice Behavior
  • Cognition*
  • Humans
  • Motivation*