A structured approach to presenting information that deliberately selects and emphasizes certain aspects of a situation while omitting or downplaying others, thereby shaping how recipients interpret, evaluate, and respond to it. Parameters: (1) a source frame selects salient elements from a perceived reality, (2) promotes a specific interpretation or evaluation, (3) operates through a communicative medium — speech, text, image, or design. Persistence mechanism: repeated use in discourse, institutional teaching, media conventions, and social networks that reproduce the frame across individuals and generations. [formal: framing | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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cognitive-framing
A structured approach to presenting information that deliberately selects and emphasizes certain aspects of a situation while omitting or downplaying others, thereby shaping how recipients interpret, evaluate, and respond to it. Parameters…
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Why it is in scope
A human-made cognitive technique for structuring perception and communication by selecting and highlighting certain aspects of a situation to promote a particular interpretation, evaluation, or course of action. Built through discourse, media, education, and social reinforcement to persist across contexts.
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- cognitive-framingen · CANONICAL
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which-came-first: framing as a general communicative practice predates cognitive-framing as a specialized psychological/organizational concept. The general practice existed first and fed into the more specific cognitive framing construct.
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Cognitive framing is a specific kind of cognitive framework — it instantiates a particular structured approach to organizing perception. Law 9: specific→general. A competent speaker would call cognitive framing 'a cognitive framework.'
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Safety-perception requires cognitive framing to interpret raw environmental signals as safety-relevant: remove the capacity to categorize, frame, and apply mental models to incoming information, and the detection-threshold, interpretation-schema, and prioritization mechanisms of safety-perception all collapse.
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