Coaching practices for The Framing Effect in a New Job
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- I’m about to walk into a new job and a new neighborhood, and I’m already bracing for it to be awkward, rehearsing how they probably won’t take to me
- Every time I restart I’m all fired up and sure this time is different, but a couple weeks in the buzz wears off and I’m right back where I was
- I keep walking into negotiations and letting the other side set the baseline first, and then I spend the whole conversation fighting uphill from their numbers
- This option suddenly feels obviously right and I can’t tell if it actually is or if it was just sold to me in a flattering way
- I’m at one of those clean-slate moments
Practices that may help
- The Framing Effect
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance. - Use the anticipation of interaction to create liking before meeting
Knowing you will interact with someone in the future makes you evaluate them more positively before it happens.
The Propinquity Effect (Leon Festinger) - Beware the false start: a clean slate without a system changes nothing
Fresh start framing provides motivation; without system changes, the same conditions produce the same results.
Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate - Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate
Fresh start framing is the deliberate use of psychological separation from past failures to motivate renewed goal pursuit. The underlying mechanism — documented by Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, and Jason Riis — is that temporal landmarks make people feel like a "new self" untainted by past failure, which lowers the weight of prior setbacks. The insight is that you can engineer this separation deliberately, not only at calendar landmarks. - The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions
Yes, and substantially. Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky) established that people feel losses about twice as intensely as equivalent gains, so a message framed around what you stand to lose tends to be more motivating than one framed around what you stand to gain — especially for risk-averse decisions. The effect is real and well-replicated, though its size depends on the stakes, the audience, and the domain. - Set the reference point before you introduce the loss
Loss is always measured from a reference point — who sets that point controls the framing.
The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions - Spot the frame being used on you
Re-describe a choice in the opposite frame to see what you actually think.
The Framing Effect - Time nudges to coincide with natural transition points
People are most open to changing habits at life transitions — capitalize on fresh-start moments.
Nudge Theory, Made Practical - Ask: “Would I choose this today if I were starting fresh?”
Evaluate your current situation as if you were encountering it for the first time, without sunk costs.
Status Quo Bias — Why We Stick with the Default - Frame the goal as prevention or promotion
Match the message to whether the person is chasing gains or guarding against losses.
The Framing Effect
Related concerns
- Goal Framing
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- Goal Framing Psychology
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- The Framing Effect During A Big Change
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- The Framing Effect When Burned Out
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- The Framing Effect When Starting Out
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- Attribute Framing
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
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