The logic of framing effects
Abstract
Framing effects concern the having of different attitudes towards logically or necessarily equivalent contents. Framing is of crucial importance for cognitive science, behavioral economics, decision theory, and the social sciences at large. We model a typical kind of framing, grounded in (i) the structural distinction between beliefs activated in working memory and beliefs left inactive in long term memory, and (ii) the topic- or subject matter-sensitivity of belief: a feature of propositional attitudes which is attracting growing research attention. We introduce a class of models featuring (i) and (ii) to represent, and reason about, agents whose belief states can be subject to framing effects. We axiomatize a logic which we prove to be sound and complete with respect to the class.
Citation
Berto , F & Özgün , A 2023 , ' The logic of framing effects ' , Journal of Philosophical Logic , vol. 52 , no. 3 , pp. 939-952 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-022-09694-0
Publication
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0022-3611Type
Journal article
Description
Funding: This research is published within the project ‘The Logic of Conceivability’, funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG), grant number 681404.Collections
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