{"pk":25503,"title":"Framing Effects and the Folk Psychiatry of Addiction","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Clinical disorders are multidimensional phenomena that are\nimportant to both clinicians and the lay public, as well as to\ncognitive scientists interested in understanding how people\nthink and reason about complex domains. To date, however,\nlittle work has examined the factors that influence the folk\npsychiatry of addiction. Participants in the present study read\na brief paragraph about addiction pitched at either an abstract\nor personal level, followed by a series of questions about the\ncauses and treatment of drug addiction. We further\nmanipulated whether addiction was described using a medical\nor psychological label. Results revealed that liberals and\nconservatives varied dramatically with respect to their folk\npsychiatric reasoning, with liberals preferring a more\nbiological/medical view, which is associated increased\nsupport for medical interventions, reduced feelings of\npersonal responsibility, and elevated feelings of stigma.\nFraming addiction using medical labels and at an abstract\nlevel pushed people towards this biological view, suggesting\nthat media reports and messaging campaigns may influence\nhow people conceptualize addiction.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"folk psychiatry; framing"},{"word":"addiction"},{"word":"Language"},{"word":"construal"},{"word":"Political Ideology"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xb395j3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Flusberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"SUNY Purchase College","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"DellaValle","name_suffix":"","institution":"SUNY Purchase College","department":""},{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"H","last_name":"Thibodeau","name_suffix":"","institution":"Oberlin College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25503/galley/15127/download/"}]}