Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

Nationality of Victims Will Not Influence Participants’ Risk Preference

A Framing Effect Study

Authors
Pei Kan1, , Yiyun Mao2, , Hongdi Wang3, *,
1Beijing City International School
2King’s College London
3Durham University

These authors contributed equally.

*Corresponding author. Email:xvnp25@durham.ac.uk
Corresponding Author
Hongdi Wang
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.105How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Nationality; the Framing Effect; Chinese; Asian-disease-problem
Abstract

The human brain does not always function rationally. The classical framing effect suggests people have different risk preferences regarding how the situation is framed. Some research suggests nationality will influence decision-making. This study explores whether people will change their risk preferences when questions are framed differently and set in different national contexts. An online between-subject-design experiment among 224 Chinese grownups was conducted, using a modified version of “Asian Disease Problem”. The independent variables of this study were the nationalities in each question and negative or positive framings of the question, while the dependent variable was the participants’ risk preference. The results showed that framing has a significant main effect. Nationality was not found a significant main effect, but the main effect of framing remains significant in each nationality setting. This study revealed that people had different risk preferences depending on the framings of the question. Participants were inclined to choose the risk-seeking option. At the same time, the question was framed negatively but not showed a salient preference for risk-seeking or risk-aversive options in positive framing. However, participants were not influenced by which nationality the question was set in. Further research containing the priming of nationality before the framing question is needed to examine the exact relationship between nationality and the framing. fMRI studies of which parts of the brain are active during participants’ decision-making might also help to provide deeper understandings of the neuropsychological rationales of their choices.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.105How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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