Talk:Framing (psychology)

There seems to be another page on Framing (communication theory). How can these best be combined?


 * I added a merge proposal template to the two pages. There is already some discussion at Talk:Framing (communication theory). Joriki 08:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

combining
The article "framing (economics)" could and should also be combined -- it's the exact same phenomenon. (unsigned)

I agree. framing (psychology), framing (communications theory), and framing (economics) certainly have a lot of commonality and perhaps should be combined into a single article. Kgrr 22:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

No, the two articles should not be merged: Framing in economics refers to a way of packaging information (e.g., a positive frame where we say out of the 100 people extacly 60 will life, as compared to a negative frame where we say out of the 100 people exactly 40 will die). Framing in psychology is about the problem for a mind to identify what a situation is about and what are its relevant aspects (putting the right frame on the information given). I do suggest the page to be extended to say more about the challenge that framing posed for theories of mind. I should perhaps note that the economics sense of framing is also used in psychology (so perhaps the labels of the pages should be changed to prevent confusion), and in particular psychology od decision-making, which has its roots in (behavioral) economics.