Disentangling Approaches to Framing: Mapping the Terrain

30 Pages Posted: 24 May 2005 Last revised: 19 Feb 2009

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Art Dewulf

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Center for Organizational and Personnel Psychology; Wageningen University - Public Administration and Policy

Barbara Gray

Pennsylvania State University - Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation (CRCN)

Linda L. Putnam

Texas A&M University - Department of Speech Communication

Noelle Aarts

Wageningen University and Research (WUR)

Roy J. Lewicki

Ohio State University (OSU) - Human Resource Research

Reni Bouwen

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)

Cees M.J. van Woerkum

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) - Communication and Innovation Studies Group

Date Written: 2005

Abstract

While researchers have demonstrated that frames have profound effects on conflict and negotiation processes and outcomes, the extant research on framing reflects a wide variety of approaches, resulting in conceptual confusion among researchers and practitioners. In this paper we disentangle these approaches by distinguishing them on two dimensions: (1) whether they adopt a cognitive or an interactional view on framing; and (2) whether they focus either on the framing of knowledge, relationships or interaction. We show how approaches differ in their theoretical assumptions and illustrate the different ways in which they deal with data. We conclude that a multi-perspective view rather than an integration view is preferred for valuing the respective contributions of these different approaches. Potential connections between the approaches are explored by focusing on the dynamic and social nature of cognitions and on the way frames in interaction assemble cognitive building blocks.

Keywords: Framing, cognition, interaction

Suggested Citation

Dewulf, Art and Dewulf, Art and Gray, Barbara and Putnam, Linda L. and Aarts, Noelle and Lewicki, Roy J. and Bouwen, Reni and van Woerkum, Cees M.J., Disentangling Approaches to Framing: Mapping the Terrain (2005). IACM 18th Annual Conference, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=728203 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.728203

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Noelle Aarts

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Reni Bouwen

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