Media frames and cognitive accessibility: What do "global warming" and "climate change" evoke partisan minds?

• Main Authors: SCHULDT, Jonathon P., Sungjong ROH
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: framing effects; climate change; cognitive accessibility; media frames; motivated reasoning; Business and Corporate Communications; Environmental Policy; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4835; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5834/viewcontent/Media_Frames_and_Cognitive_Accessibility_What_Do_Global_Warming_and_Climate_Change_Evoke_in_Partisan_Minds__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Decades of research demonstrate that how the public thinks about a given issue is affected by how it is framed by the media. Typically, studies of framing vary how an issue is portrayed (often, by altering the text of written communication) and compare subsequent beliefs, attitudes, or preferences—t...