Narrative Based Information : Does the Explanatory Style of News Stories Matter?
People typically do not acquire new information about the facts of the economy through consulting official statistics; they read or listen to media-type reports on the economy where the facts are packaged in a story. This paper tests with an experiment whether the explanatory style used in such stories affects individual decision making. In a 2x2 design, our subjects receive a news prime about the economy before they play a minimum effort game. The news contains either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ facts about the economy and these facts are either presented using an ‘optimistic’ or a ‘pessimistic’ explanatory style. We find that the prime of a news story only affects behaviour when the facts are bad and the character of this influence then comes from the explanatory style
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2023
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Authors: | Hargreaves Heap, Shaun ; Karadimitropoulou, Aikaterini ; Levi, Eugenio |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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