When uncertainty meets life: The effect of animacy on probability expression
文献类型：期刊论文
| 作者 | Du, Xue-Lei ; Liu, Shi-Hong; Xu, Jie-Hong; Rao, Li-Lin; Jiang, Cheng-Ming; Li, Shu
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| 刊名 | JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
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| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 卷号 | 8期号:4页码:425-438 |
| 关键词 | verbal probability numerical probability the animate-inanimate distinction animacy feature |
| ISSN号 | 1930-2975 |
| 产权排序 | 1 |
| 通讯作者 | Li, S (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, 16 Lincui Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China. |
| 英文摘要 | Everyone faces uncertainty on a daily basis. Two kinds of probability expressions, verbal and numerical, have been used to characterize the uncertainty that we face. Because our cognitive concept of living things differs from that of non-living things, and distinguishing cognitive concepts might have linguistic markers, we designed four studies to test whether people use different probability expressions when faced with animate or inanimate uncertainty. We found that verbal probability is the preferred way to express animate uncertainty, whereas numerical probability is the preferred way to express inanimate uncertainty. The "verbal-animate" and "numerical-inanimate" associations were robust enough to persist when tested with forced-choice response patterns regardless of the information (e.g., equally likely outcomes, frequencies, or personal beliefs) used to construct probabilities of events. When the response pattern was changed to free-responses, the associations were evident unless the subjects were asked to write their own probability predictions for vague uncertainty. Given that the world around us consists of both animate (i.e., living) and inanimate (i.e., non-living) things, "verbal-animate" and "numerical-inanimate" associations may play a major role in risk communication and may otherwise be useful for practitioners and consultants. |
| WOS标题词 | Social Sciences |
| 学科主题 | Social psychology |
| 类目[WOS] | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
| 研究领域[WOS] | Psychology |
| 关键词[WOS] | PREFERENCE PARADOX ; RESPONSE-MODE ; TERMS ; DECISIONS ; SEVERITY ; MEANINGS ; SPEAKERS ; CHINESE |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 原文出处 | http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/journal/13/13120/jdm13120.pdf |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000322988500003 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10781]  |
| 专题 | 心理研究所_中国科学院行为科学重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | Li, S (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, 16 Lincui Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China. |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Du, Xue-Lei,Liu, Shi-Hong,Xu, Jie-Hong,et al. When uncertainty meets life: The effect of animacy on probability expression[J]. JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING,2013,8(4):425-438. |
| APA | Du, Xue-Lei,Liu, Shi-Hong,Xu, Jie-Hong,Rao, Li-Lin,Jiang, Cheng-Ming,&Li, Shu.(2013).When uncertainty meets life: The effect of animacy on probability expression.JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING,8(4),425-438. |
| MLA | Du, Xue-Lei,et al."When uncertainty meets life: The effect of animacy on probability expression".JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING 8.4(2013):425-438. |
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