Framing Matters

William A. Donohue is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, where he teaches and conducts research in conflict resolution processes.Randall G. Rogan is Associate Dean of Wake Forest College at Wake Forest University. He conducts research in the areas of forensic discourse and crisis negotiations.Sanda Kaufman is Professor of Planning, Public Policy, and Administration at Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs, where she directs the Master of Arts in Environmental Studies Program. She conducts research in the areas of public decision making and conflict management.

• Contents: William Donohue/Randall Rogan/Sanda Kaufman: Introduction – Art Dewulf/Barbara Gray/Linda Putnam/René Bouwen: An Interactional Approach to Framing in Conflict and Negotiation – William A. Donohue: An Interactionist Approach to Frames – Mara Olekalns/Philip L. Smith: Mindsets: Sensemaking and Transition in Negotiation – Petru L. Curşeu: Framing Effects in Small-Group and Intergroup Negotiation: A Cognitive Perspective – Laurence de Carlo: Proposing a Debate on the Concept of Frames in Negotiation Enlightened by Psychoanalytical Insights – Roy J. Lewicki/Chad T. Brinsfield: Framing Trust: Trust as a Heuristic – Michael H.G. Hoffmann: Analyzing Framing Processes in Conflicts and Communication by Means of Logical Argument Mapping – Sanda Kaufman/Deborah Shmueli: Framing in Public Decision Interactions: Transferring Theory to Practice – Séverine van Bommel/Noelle Aarts: Framing Nature Conservation Experts and Expertise in the Drentsche Aa Area in the Netherlands: A Contextual Approach – Randall G. Rogan: «Death to America»: A Frame Analysis of Osama bin Laden’s Declarations of War against the United States – Noelle Aarts/Maartje van Lieshout/Cees van Woerkum: Competing Claims in Public Space: The Construction of Frames in Different Relational Contexts – Daniel Druckman/James N. Druckman: The Many Faces of Framing in Negotiation – Peter J. Carnevale: Dynamics of Frame Change: The Remarkable Lightness of Frames, and Sticky Frames.