From risk and time preferences to cultural models of causality: on the challenges and possibilities of field experiments, with examples from rural southwestern Madagascar

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Tucker, B. (author)
    Format:
    Research report
    Publication Date:
    2017
    URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7892791533
    Published:
    Madagascar: Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10100
    Journal Title Details:
    Volume 64. : pgs. 61-114
    Subject Term:
    attitudes, communication research, decision making, decision process, farmers, research methods, risk assessment, risk communication, social factors, values, risk management, motivation, Madagascar (Africa, Eastern), fishers, personality, hunters, cultural factors, field experiments, and supernatural forces
    Notes:
    Print ISBN: 978-3-319-51721-9 Online ISBN: 978-319-51721-6, Pages 61-114 in Stevens, J. (ed), Impulsivity. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Volume 64. Book series., Author suggests: "Meaning clearly influences people's choices; otherwise, framing and priming would not work. Culture is probably the most significant source of frames and primes. ... For southwestern Malagasy and probably for all humanity, the meaning behind unpredictability and anticipation relates to a clockwork understanding of interacting factors that are ultimately influenced by God, ancestors, and other supernatural forces.

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