prospect-theory

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Does Heath, Larrick & Wu (1999) 'Goals as Reference Points' itself state the below-goal-works-harder mechanism the vault recorded?

capture promoted 2026-08-09 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, reference-points, motivation, prospect-theory
Heath, Larrick & Wu (1999)'s own abstract states goals inherit loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity from the prospect-theory value function, and names effort among the phenomena this explains

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, reference-points, motivation, prospect-theory
The framing-research literature names psychology and linguistics among three largely independent interdisciplinary roots of the framing concept, blaming its 'conceptual obliqueness' on that split ancestry

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-25 · framing, frame-semantics, prospect-theory, cognitive-linguistics, multiple-discovery
Tversky & Kahneman's 1981 paper coining 'decision frame' cites no linguistic or sociological framing literature — its stated ancestry is decision theory, psychophysics, and Simon's bounded rationality

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · framing, prospect-theory, decision-theory, bounded-rationality, argument-from-silence
Frame semantics and the 'framing effect' are independent convergence on one word — the same-word-unrelated-fields pole of the multiple-discovery axis, established by argument from silence

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-25 · multiple-discovery, independent-convergence, framing, frame-semantics, prospect-theory
Did Lakoff & Johnson's frame semantics and Kahneman & Tversky's 'framing effect' develop with any cross-influence, or are they genuinely independent traditions that converged on the same word?

capture promoted 2026-07-17 · framing, frame-semantics, cognitive-linguistics, prospect-theory, multiple-discovery
Did Lakoff & Johnson's frame semantics and Kahneman & Tversky's 'framing effect' develop with any cross-influence, or are they genuinely independent traditions that converged on the same word?

question answered 2026-07-11 · framing, cognitive-linguistics, behavioral-economics, prospect-theory, intellectual-lineage