Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Frame Structures: How Strategic Frames Shape Perception, Legitimacy, and Belief

Frame Structures: How Strategic Frames Shape Perception, Legitimacy, and Belief

Cathey, Chris

Paperback

LinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN13: 9798185266823
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 512
Weight: 2.59
Height: 1.03 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Frame Structures is a field guide to one of the most powerful forces shaping public belief: the frame.

Before people argue about facts, policy, war, crisis, justice, security, corruption, freedom, or legitimacy, they are usually already inside a structure that tells them what kind of situation they are looking at. That structure is the frame.

In this book, Chris Cathey explains how frames organize perception before debate begins. A frame determines what is visible, what is ignored, what is emphasized, what is minimized, who is treated as victim or villain, what evidence matters, and what conclusion feels reasonable.

This is not a book about slogans or spin. It treats framing as a system of cognitive power with components, functions, deployment channels, failure modes, and countermeasures. The book gives readers a practical taxonomy of frame types, including threat frames, justice frames, safety frames, corruption frames, legitimacy frames, censorship frames, free speech frames, security frames, privacy frames, progress frames, revolution frames, propaganda frames, disinformation frames, and compound frame systems.

Inside, you will learn how to:

Identify the frame behind an argument

Also from

Cathey, Chris

View All

Also in

General Psychology

View All