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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2018 Jun 27;129:155–161. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.032

Table 1.

Narrative Manipulations

Group Narrative
Negative You have just been fired from your job. You will now have to move in with a relative who lives in a part of the country you dislike, and you will have to spend all of your savings to move there. You do not qualify for unemployment, so you will not be making any income until you find another job.
Neutral At your job, you have just been transferred to a different department in a location across town. It is a similar distance from where you live so you will not have to move. You will be making 2% more than you previously were.