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- Title
TEMPORAL FRAMING AND THE HIDDEN-ZERO EFFECT: RATE-DEPENDENT OUTCOMES ON DELAY DISCOUNTING.
- Authors
Naudé, Gideon P.; Kaplan, Brent A.; Reed, Derek D.; Henley, Amy J.; DiGennaro Reed, Florence D.
- Abstract
Recent research suggests that presenting time intervals as units (e.g., days) or as specific dates, can modulate the degree to which humans discount delayed outcomes. Another framing effect involves explicitly stating that choosing a smaller--sooner reward is mutually exclusive to receiving a larger--later reward, thus presenting choices as an extended sequence. In Experiment 1, participants (N = 201) recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk completed the Monetary Choice Questionnaire in a 2 (delay framing) by 2 (zero framing) design. Regression suggested a main effect of delay, but not zero, framing after accounting for other demographic variables and manipulations. We observed a rate-dependent effect for the date-framing group, such that those with initially steep discounting exhibited greater sensitivity to the manipulation than those with initially shallow discounting. Subsequent analyses suggest these effects cannot be explained by regression to the mean. Experiment 2 addressed the possibility that the null effect of zero framing was due to within-subject exposure to the hidden- and explicit-zero conditions. A new Amazon Mechanical Turk sample completed the Monetary Choice Questionnaire in either hidden- or explicit-zero formats. Analyses revealed a main effect of reward magnitude, but not zero framing, suggesting potential limitations to the generality of the hidden-zero effect.
- Subjects
QUESTIONNAIRES; FRAMES (Social sciences); REGRESSION (Psychology); MATHEMATICAL variables; AMAZON.COM Inc.
- Publication
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2018, Vol 109, Issue 3, p506
- ISSN
0022-5002
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jeab.328