Psychology Roots
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Framing
Read these two questions and consider how you would respond if a person you liked called you and presented them to you: 1) “Would you like to go out tonight?”; and 2) “What time do you want to go out tonight?” These two questions are addressing the same basic issue, but they are framed differently — they are presented in different ways and under different pretenses. The first, is framed in a more passive, open manner, while the second implies that you and this person ARE going out and the only issue is what time you will be going. It is all in how you ask!
