In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

Scenario-based messages on social media motivate COVID-19 information seeking.

“…In Study 2, we found that negative messages (prevention-framing) elicited negative affective responses but did not increase interest. Our findings align with a recent meta-analysis, which found that loss-framing in COVID-19 messaging increased anxiety without impacting policy attitudes, behavioral intentions, or information seeking (Dorison et al, 2022). However, it is possible that positive messages were weakened by other negative concepts (e.g., the word “risk”), or positive and negative messages appeal to different individuals but yield no net effect on average.…”

Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots

“…In contrast, when framing the arguments that highlight the losses of not taking the medication, the agent’s trustworthiness was similar for both ethical decisions. These results are aligned with the findings of previous studies suggesting some of the benefits of persuasive effects using gain- versus loss-framed messages, under particular circumstances [ 30 – 32 , 63 ]. However, the only difference between these two message frames was in judgments about the trustworthiness of the healthcare agent, and like previous results the effect size was small.…”

How to build up big team science: a practical guide for large-scale collaborations

“…Some smaller BTS initiatives have collaborators edit their own copy of the manuscript, which are then either merged into a single file or reviewed one at a time. For a particularly large project run by the Psychological Science Accelerator, they asked their 450+ collaborators to submit feedback through a structured survey form rather than directly editing the manuscript [66]. This form, among other things, asked co-authors to distinguish between major feedback (e.g.…”