Abstract Using an experimental design, this paper tackles the question of the framing impact of metaphors by focusing on the opportunity to implement a basic income (BI) system in a given polity. We take advantage of the preliminary stage of the BI debate in Belgium to study the influence of discursive strategies on the opinion formation process of individuals, since carefully choosing the arguments employed to address this question can help increase its psychological feasibility. Our experiment aims at determining to what extent the confrontation of individuals to metaphors illustrating the BI system impacts the way they apprehend its implementation. We show that very light variations in an informative text can induce major differences in the opinion formation process of the participants. BI proponents should thus pay attention to which metaphors are put forward in the public debate, as this could modify its outcome.

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基本收入框架：论据和隐喻如何影响个人意见形成的实验研究

摘要 本文使用实验设计，通过关注在给定政体中实施基本收入 (BI) 系统的机会来解决隐喻的框架影响问题。我们利用比利时 BI 辩论的初步阶段来研究话语策略对个人意见形成过程的影响，因为仔细选择用于解决这个问题的论点有助于增加其心理可行性。我们的实验旨在确定个人对说明 BI 系统的隐喻的对抗在多大程度上影响他们理解其实施的方式。我们表明，信息文本中非常轻微的变化会导致参与者意见形成过程中的重大差异。