Addiction : disease or gluttony? Examining the influence of metaphorical framing effect on reader reasoning

• Main Author: Tan, Zhi Xin
• Other Authors: Francis Bond
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66103
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study built on the foundations laid by previous research on the effects of metaphorical framing in reasoning by investigating a social problem that has not been studied much in this context: addiction. It also added the specificity of the target domain – represented by four different addiction...