A German-language replication study analysing the role of figurative speech in reasoning

Christmann, Ursula; Göhring, Anne‐Louise

doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.98

Cited by 13 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…They found that even the limited metaphorical information (via a single word) could powerfully influence how people attempted to solve social problems like crime and how they gathered information to make "well-informed" decisions. Christmann and Göhring (2016) replicated Thibodeau and Boroditsky's study (2011) in the German language, concluding that metaphors do indeed frame reasoning. Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013) further found that the crime is a disease and crime is a wild beast metaphors could influence people's reasoning even when they had a set of options available to compare and select among, which suggests metaphors can influence not just what solution comes to mind first, but also which solution people think is best.…”

Section: Metaphorical Framingsupporting

confidence: 66%

Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes

Liu

Chen²

2023

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

IntroductionWith the frequent occurrences of telecom fraud crimes in China, it is very necessary and urgent to carry out effective anti-telefraud risk communication. In the present study, we investigated the role of metaphorical framing in shaping people’s attitudes toward telecom fraud in anti-telefraud messages through two experiments.MethodsParticipants (N = 547, Experiment 1; N = 604, Experiment 2) were randomly assigned to war-framing, disease-framing, or issue-framing conditions. They were asked to read anti-telefraud messages where metaphorical frames were realized through multiple metaphorical expressions in Experiment 1 and relatively shorter messages where metaphorical frames were only instantiated through one metaphorical word in Experiment 2.Results The results showed that participants without prior experience with telecom fraud perceived severity as significantly higher in the war-framing condition than in the issue-framing condition. Besides, the framing effects were only detected in Experiment 2 where the short anti-telefraud message with limited metaphorical information was provided.DiscussionThe study reveals that even one metaphorical word is sufficient to build a framework for thinking about complex concepts, like telecom fraud, and prior experience with a certain risk can serve as a moderator of metaphorical framing on people’s risk perceptions. It is also found that the effectiveness of metaphors may be more salient in the genres of a short length such as anti-telefraud banners. The study can shed light on public legal educators whose job is to use effective ways to communicate telecom fraud risk to citizens.

show abstract

Section: Metaphorical Framingsupporting

confidence: 66%

Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes

Liu

Chen²

2023

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In line with previous research on the effects of militaristic metaphors on the endorsement of preventive behaviours (Flusberg et al, 2017;Hauser & Schwarz, 2015;Robins & Mayer, 2000), we want to test whether militaristic metaphors affect emotions, threat perceptions and policy preferences, and whether they shape participants' own thoughts and language choice in the pandemic situation, as shown by previous studies on metaphorical information processing (Christmann & Göhring, 2016;Thibodeau & Boroditsky, 2013).…”

Section: Warfare Metaphors Reasoning and Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 94%

“It's a war! It's a battle! It's a fight!”: Do militaristic metaphors increase people's threat perceptions and support for COVID‐19 policies?

Schnepf

Christmann

2021

Int J Psychol

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

At the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, governments around the world employed militaristic metaphors to draw attention to the dangers of the virus. But, do militaristic metaphors truly affect individuals' perceived threat of the COVID‐19 virus and increase their support for corresponding restrictive policies? This study assessed the effects of fictitious newspaper articles that described COVID‐19 policies using similarly negatively valenced metaphors but with differing militaristic connotations (e.g., “war” vs. “struggle”). Overall, data from three framing experiments ( N = 1114) in Germany and the United States indicate limited evidence on the effectiveness of the tested militaristic metaphors. In the U.S. context, the non‐militaristic concept of struggle was consistently more strongly associated with the desired outcomes than militaristic metaphors were. In Studies 2 and 3, we also tested whether reporting using a narrative or straightforward facts had additional influence on the framing effect. A congruency effect of the use of a narrative and of warfare metaphors was found in the German sample, but not in that of the United States. Results of post‐experimental norming studies ( N = 437) in both countries revealed that the metaphor of war is associated with people ascribing greater responsibility to their governments, whereas the concept of struggle triggers a sense of individual responsibility. These results are discussed in terms of the usefulness and appropriateness of militaristic metaphors in the context of a pandemic.

show abstract

“…And last, we present replication data from Christmann and Göhring 18 , who successfully replicated results of a 2011 paper on the ways in which metaphors can frame reasoning 19 . This data paper stands out because it describes replication data collected in a different language (German) from the one in which the original study was conducted (English).…”

Section: Commentmentioning

confidence: 59%

Replication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts

DeSoto

Schweinsberg

2017

Sci Data

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Researchers agree that replicability and reproducibility are key aspects of science. A collection of Data Descriptors published in Scientific Data presents data obtained in the process of attempting to replicate previously published research. These new replication data describe published and unpublished projects. The different papers in this collection highlight the many ways that scientific replications can be conducted, and they reveal the benefits and challenges of crucial replication research. The organizers of this collection encourage scientists to reuse the data contained in the collection for their own work, and also believe that these replication examples can serve as educational resources for students, early-career researchers, and experienced scientists alike who are interested in learning more about the process of replication.

show abstract

A German-language replication study analysing the role of figurative speech in reasoning

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes

Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes

“It's a war! It's a battle! It's a fight!”: Do militaristic metaphors increase people's threat perceptions and support for COVID‐19 policies?

Replication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About