Tag: Framing effects

Asking About “Prostitution,” “Sex Work,” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services

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Author: Hansen, Michael A.; Johansson, Isabelle Description: This study explored the impact of question wording on attitudes toward trading sexual services. There are no previous research agendas investigating how views on the trade in sex are susceptible to question word choice. We utilized an original survey to assess how three different concepts used to represent the exchange of sexual services impact on the reported level of acceptability among respondents. The concepts we selected were “prostitution,” “sex work”, and “transactional sex.” We also explored the contrasting effects of predictor variables based…

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Influence of wording and framing effects on moral intuitions

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Author: Petrinovich, Lewis; O’Neill, Patricia Description: This research considers biasing effects on the expression of moral intuitions. Participants in Study 1 were asked to resolve some hypothetical moral dilemmas that involved the death of one or another set of individuals. For half of the participants, the problems were phrased using a Kill wording and for the other half a Save wording, although the outcomes were identical in each case. In Study 2, framing effects were produced by posing dilemma problems in different orders and in different contexts. In Study 1,…

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Attitudes towards assisted dying are influenced by question wording and order: a survey experiment

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Author: Magelssen, Morten; Supphellen, Magne; Nortvedt, Per; Materstvedt, Lars Johan Description: BACKGROUND: Surveys on attitudes towards assisted dying play an important role in informing public debate, policy and legislation. Unfortunately, surveys are often designed with insufficient attention to framing effects; that is, effects on the respondents’ stated attitudes caused by question wording and context. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate and measure such framing effects. METHODS: Survey experiment in which an eight-question survey on attitudes towards assisted dying was distributed to Norwegian citizens through a web-based panel. Two…

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