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A Dirty Word Or
A Dirty World?
Attribute Framing, Politics, and Query Theory
David Hardisty, Eric Johnson & Elke WeberColumbia UniversityNSF SES-03455840 & SES-0352062 NIA 5R01AG027934-02
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TAX
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A Paradox?
• Leading economists and climate scientists advocate a CO2 tax
• Few US politicians mention a CO2 tax
• Meanwhile, the carbon offset (and credit) industry allows people to voluntarily pay more
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“Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases ‘revenue enhancement’. Not so. No one was fooled.”
-- J. Danforth Quayle, V.P., 1989-1993
The Quayle Conjecture
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Attribute Framing
• Labels make a big difference• People pay more for 75% lean than 25%
fat (Levin & Gaeth, 1988)
• Doctors & patients prefer survival rate to mortality rate (Marteau, 1980; McNeil, Pauker, Sox & Tversky, 1982)
• Women, but not men, prefer an 80% fat-free chocolate bar (Braun, Gaeth & Levin, 1997)
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Political Ideology
• Strong, reliable individual differences based on political conservatism (Jost, 2006)
• Conservatives sensitive to the labeling of financial options (Morris, Carranza & Fox, in press)
• Perhaps conservatives are uniquely sensitive to the “tax” label
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Predictions
1. More support for the offset label than the tax label
2. More support among Democrats than Republicans across labels
3. Republicans more strongly affected by the labeling
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Study 1: Participants
• 275 US Residents
• Mean age = 41 (SD = 13)
• Recruited and run online
• 38% Democrats, 25% Republicans, 37% none of the above
• No significant demographic differences among parties
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Study 1: Methods
• Proposal to increase cost of certain products believed to contribute to global warming through energy use and resulting CO2 emissions
• Price increases would fund programs to decrease CO2 levels by funding alternative energies or carbon sequestration
• Proposal described as carbon tax or carbon offset (between subjects manipulation)
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Study 1: Methods
Suppose you are purchasing a round trip flight from Los Angeles to New York city, and you are debating between two tickets, one of which includes a carbon tax [offset]. You are debating between the following two tickets, which are otherwise identical. Which would you choose?
Ticket A Ticket B
$392.70 round trip ticketincludes a carbon tax [offset]
$385.00 round trip ticket
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• How strongly would you prefer Ticket A or Ticket B? (-2 = Strongly Prefer B to +2 = Strongly Prefer A)
• Do you think the carbon tax [offset] included in Ticket A should be made mandatory for all airline tickets sold in the US? (-3 = Definitely Not to 3 = Definitely)
Study 1: Methods
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• Environmental attitudes questionnaire (NEPr, Dunlap et al., 2000)
• Demographic questions, including political affiliation
Study 1: Methods
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Study 1: Flight Choices
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Study 1: Flight Choices
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Study 1: Flight Choices
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Study 1: Flight Choices
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Study 1: Gas Choices
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Study 1: Electricity Choices
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Study 1: Computer Choices
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Study 1: Preferences
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Offset
Tax
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Study 1: Support for Regulation
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Tax
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What About Environmental Attitudes?
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Study 1: Environmental Attitudes
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Environmental Attitudes (NEPr) Quartile
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Tax
Offset
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Study 1: Education
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Offset
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Study 1: Discussion
• Effect of labeling depended on political affiliation
• Little is known about the cognitive or affective processes driving attribute framing effects
• In Study 2, we explored the cognitive mechanisms underlying preference construction
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Query Theory (Johnson et al., 2007)
• Preferences constructed from memory
• Series of mental queries for and against each option
• The resulting balance of evidence determines your preference
• Order matters: due to output interference, the second query generates less support
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Query Theory: Empirical Support
• Endowment effect: ownership changes the order of queries (Johnson et al., 2007)
• Intertemporal choice: accelerate-delay effect (Weber et al., 2007)
• Reversing the natural order of queries eliminates these effects
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Query Theory: Hypotheses
• Label will affect ordering of thoughts supporting or opposed to carbon fee
• Republicans will have immediate, negative thoughts in response to the tax label
• The ordering will affect the balance of support, in turn predicting choices
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Alternative Hypothesis: Affect
• Perhaps Republicans have a negative affective reaction to the word tax, which changes their mood and alters their processing and choices
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Study 2: Participants
• 373 US Residents
• 39% Democrats, 21% Republicans, 24% Independents, 16% none of the above
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Study 2: Methods
• Participants practiced listing their thoughts • Read description of tax/offset program• Listed thoughts about the two airline tickets• Indicated their choice, preference strength, and
support for regulation• Reported positive & negative feelings (“affect”)• Self-coded their thoughts• Reported demographics
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Study 2: Choices
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Study 2: Choices
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Study 2: Positive Affect
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tive
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Tax
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Study 2: Negative Affect
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Tax
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Thought Examples
• good for the environment
• carbon offset is not that much more than regular ticket
• what does the extra money do to offset the carbon
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Thought Examples
• we are taxed too much
• I don't want to pay additional tax
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Thought Examples
• Why would I ever pay extra for this?• I really don't care about a 'carbon tax'• If it's the same thing, get rid of the tax• The government needs to stop taxing us
randomly• I will be old or dead by the time this world has an
energy crisis• And by that i mean a huge one where we are all
f***ed• This is a ridiculous thought to have
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Thought Examples
• tree huggers
• how do I really know which one has carbon emissions?
• save the world
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Order of Thoughts
• Order calculated as the Standardized Median Rank Difference (SMRD)
• SMRD scores vary from +1 (supportive thoughts first) to -1 (opposed thoughts first)
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Study 2: Number of Thoughts
• Participants listed 2.7 thoughts (SD = 1.4)
• No effect of party or frame
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Study 2: Order of Thoughts
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Study 2: Content of Thoughts
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Study 2: Thought Order and Content
• Order & content highly correlated, r = .68, p < .001.
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Study 2: Mediation
Frame x Party
Choiceβ =0.82, p < .0001
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Study 2: Mediation
Frame x Party
Choice
Order &Balance ofThoughts
β =0.23, p < .05β =0.87, p < .0001
β =0.84, p < .0001β =1.43, p < .0001
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Study 2: Mediation
Frame x Party
Choice
Order &Balance ofThoughts
β =0.82, p < .0001
(β = 0.59, p = .054)
Sobel Test, Order: z = 2.3, p < .05Sobel Test, Content: z = 3.0, p < .001
β =0.23, p < .05β =0.87, p < .0001
β =1.43, p < .0001β =0.84, p < .0001
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Study 2: Education
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Study 2: Discussion
• Replicates Study 1
• As predicted by Query Theory, differential framing effect driven by a cognitive difference in the order & balance of thoughts supporting each option
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Can you make Republicans like taxes?
• What if we manipulate the order of thoughts?
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Study 3: Results
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Future Directions
• Consequential choices
• Hot-button word for Democrats?
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Implications
• Message framing may mean different things to different people
• Order in which people consider new information is important
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Thanks to...
• My co-authors, Elke & Eric
• The National Science Foundation, SES-03455840 and SES-0352062
• The National Institute on Aging, 5R01AG027934-02
• The CRED and PAM labs
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Thank You!!!
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A Dirty Word Or
A Dirty World?
Attribute Framing, Politics, and Query Theory
David Hardisty, Eric Johnson & Elke WeberColumbia UniversityNSF SES-03455840 & SES-0352062 NIA 5R01AG027934-02
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Study 1 Fee DescriptionThe following questions will ask you to choose between two products, one of which includes paying for carbon emissions.
As you may know, carbon dioxide emissions are produced by many human activities, such as driving, flying, or using electricity. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international panel of credible scientists who study the issue, these carbon emissions contribute to global warming.
The carbon you produce can be balanced out through measures such as planting trees, which absorb carbon, or funding alternative energy sources, which reduces reliance on polluting energy sources such as coal. The goal of a carbon tax, which may or may not be mandatory, is therefore to fund these efforts and ensure that the price of an activity reflects the true cost to society. [The goal of a carbon offset, which may or may not be mandatory, is therefore to make an activity carbon neutral -- meaning that there is no net contribution to global warming.]
We would like you to tell us your preference for products in which one may address the issue, removing the amount of carbon that you would contribute by using the product. We are interested in your opinions, that is your best guess of what you would do if you really faced these choices. Note that all prices and costs in the following questions are actual, real world prices and costs.
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Study 2 Fee DescriptionThe following questions will ask you to choose between two products, both of which cause some carbon emissions, but only one of which includes payment for compensating those emissions.
As you may know, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are produced by many human activities, such as driving, flying, or using electricity. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international panel of credible scientists who study the issue, these carbon emissions contribute to global warming.
The carbon you produce can be balanced out through measures such as funding alternative energy sources (which reduces reliance on polluting energy sources such as coal), or carbon sequestration (which traps greenhouse gases so they do not enter the atmosphere). The goal of a carbon tax [offset] is therefore to fund these activities and ensure that the cost of an activity reflects its true cost to society. Policymakers are considering a mandatory carbon tax [offset] program which would raise the cost of certain products and services but make these activities carbon neutral through reputable measures such as those described above.
We would like you to tell us your preferences for products which do or do not include a carbon tax [offset]. We are interested in your opinions, that is your best guess of what you would do if you really faced these choices. Note that all prices and costs in the following questions are actual, real world prices and costs.
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Computing Order of Thoughts
• Order calculated as the Standardized Median Rank Difference (SMRD)
• SMRD = 2(MRo–MRs)/n • MRo = median rank of aspects opposed to the
more expensive option in the list of aspects • MRs = median rank of aspects supporting the
less expensive option in the list of aspects• n = total number of aspects listed • SMRD scores vary from +1 (supportive thoughts
first) to -1 (opposed thoughts first)
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