The same choice looks different depending on whether it's framed as a gain or a loss

In Tversky and Kahneman's 1981 'Asian disease' experiment, people overwhelmingly picked the safe option when a policy was framed as saving lives, and the risky option when the identical outcome was framed as lives lost. The underlying numbers never changed, only the wording. It became one of the founding demonstrations behind prospect theory.

— Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice — Science, 1981

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