Framing Effect And Justice Judgment

The more democratic the society, the more social issues and policies will touch upon the justice judgment. The exploration of the factors influencing justice judgment has important theoretical and practical significance.Taking into account the considerable influences that framing effect on the judgment and decision-making in all areas of society, can framing effect influences citizen's justice judgment? We explore the issue systematically. We explore the influences that framing effect on citizens'justice judgment and decision-making from three aspects. Firstly, Individual personality variables; Secondly, thinking characteristics; Thirdly, attitudes, values, task domain.The results indicated that:(1)Experiment 1 showed that only neurotic personality variables was significant in the influence that framing effect having on the justice judgments and decision-making. Need for cognition was not significant.(2)Experiment 2 showed that the way of thinking on the justice judgment and decision-making was asymmetric in the positive and negative frame. Experiment 3 showed that hemisphere cognitive style on the justice judgment and decision-making was not significant in the influence that framing effect having on the justice judgments and decision -making. But the interaction of hemisphere cognitive style and gender was significant. Experiment 4 showed that self-related and self-involvement was significant in the influence that framing effect having on the justice judgments and decision -making.(3) The view which social representations theory holds was confirmed by experiments 5. The framing manner only influences the peripheral and specific justice attitudes. It couldn't influence the core and generalized justice attitudes. Social representations theory argues that the nature of information processing is determined not only by individual differences. but also by the resources provided by the share representations of culture in the society. Meanwhile the representational theory of attitude claims that framing manner of a given social issue may influence isolated attitudes and cognitions related to specific aspects of that issue(peripheral elements).however,framing should be less likely to influence relevant attitudes to the extent that they are anchored in societally elaborated representations(central or core element). Experiment 6 confirmed that the core elements—strength of justice values was significant in the influence that framing effect having on the justice judgments and decision -making. The mediator were greatly moderated by strong justice values, but the mediator were lessly moderated by weak justice values.Meanwhile there existed interaction between strength of values and the framing manner. Experiment 7 confirmed that justice principles were not significance in two framing manner. This showed that the value's elements were difficult to be influenced by framing manner. But justice principles were significance across tasks in two framing manner showed that subjects'evaluation on the justice principle was influenced by the task domain. Subjects judged non-egalitarian principles more equitable in the allocation of resources in positive framing manner (performance, ability, effort, needs, work tenure principle).The study of a series of experiments showed that the influence of framing manner on the justice judgment and decision-making was mainly correlated with such factors:correlation with the individual's own, individual's deep and the core concept of justice, the specific task domain. From the perspective of decision-making science, neurotic personality characteristics of individuals', the relevance with the individual own, task domain can be seen as moderators while individuals'deep-seated justice attitudes, justice values and its strength, the justice principles are the determinants of justice judgments in the influence that framing effect having on the justice judgments and decision -making. The study also showed the content's change taked into account was mediator of framing effect.Experimental results showed that the social elite could operation citizens' specific justice attitudes and other aspects out of justice values to a certain extent.but they can not operate the citizens'core justice values, the core values principles irrespective of how its form changes. When the events are highly self-related with the citizen, and relating with citizen's core justice value and value principles, the social elite will not be able to achieve their intended purpose. Although up to now, there was some evidence showed that there existed isolated incompetent, More general conclusion is that in most cases citizens can understand and use the framing manner competently and rationally.Finally,I put forward three ideas for future research.