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Decisions, Decisions: Analysis of Age, Cohort, and Time of Testing on Framing of Risky Decision Options

Christopher B. Mayhorn

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Arthur D. Fisk

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Justin D. Whittle

Delta Technologies, Atlanta, Georgia

Decision making in uncertain environments is a daily challenge faced by adults of all ages. Framing decision options as either gains or losses is a common method of altering decision-making behavior. In the experiment reported here, benchmark decision-making data collected in the 1970s by Tversky and Kahneman (1981, 1988) were compared with data collected from current samples of young and older adults to determine whether behavior was consistent across time. Although differences did emerge between the benchmark and the present samples, the effect of framing on decision behavior was relatively stable. The present findings suggest that adults of all ages are susceptible to framing effects. Results also indicated that apparent age differences might be better explained by an analysis of cohort and time-of-testing effects. Actual or potential applications of this research include an understanding of how framing might influence the decision-making behavior of people of all ages in a number of applied contexts, such as product warning interactions and medical decision scenarios.

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Vol. 44, No. 4, 515-521 (2002)
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024496935
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