Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation

Gail Moloney; R Hall; Iain Walker

doi:10.1348/014466605X42246

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Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation

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Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation

Gail Moloney, R Hall and Iain Walker

British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.44(3), pp.415-441

2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1348/014466605X42246

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Psychology

Cognitive Sciences

Public Health and Health Services

This study extends previous research investigating the social representation of organ donation and transplantation (Moloney & Walker, 2000, 2002) by exploring the accommodation of contradiction (Wagner, Duveen, Verma, & Thelmel, 2000) within consensual reality (Rose et al., 1995), and the role of themata (Markova, 2000) in a representation. The study employed a mail-out questionnaire embedded with eight experimental conditions, which manipulated two tasks, scenario rating scale and word association. WMDS (INDSCAL) analyses demonstrated that the dialectical concepts of life and death are generative of a contradictory representational field that is maintained through the differential elicitation of the normative and functional dimensions (Guimelli, 1998) of the representation in accordance with social context.

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Title: Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation
Authors: Gail Moloney (Author) - Southern Cross University
R Hall (Author) - Environmetrics Pty
Iain Walker (Author) - Murdoch University
Publication details: British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.44(3), pp.415-441
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Date published: 2005
DOI: 10.1348/014466605X42246
ISSN: 0144-6665
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449365402621
Output Type: Journal article

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