Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Some preventers only stop an effect when it is being produced by certain causes.For example, nasal spray prevents headaches caused by a cold but not headaches caused by dehydration or stress.Thus, preventers differ in preventative scope: the range of circumstances across which a preventer operates.An experiment indicated that people are sensitive to differences in preventative scope and that participants are more likely to generalize prevention when the preventer has a broad preventative scope.Additional evidence suggested that people take preventative scope into account when attempting to explain how prevention operates.
Authors: Christopher Carroll, Patricia W. Cheng
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2625193478