Five people are sitting in a waiting room and the news is playing on a TV in the corner. A 60-second story about a controversial pipeline project comes on. All five people watch the same clip at the same time, but each interprets it differently.
Sociologists, psychologists and political scientists have been researching for decades the factors that lead different people to interpret the very same information in sometimes very different ways. Four of the theories they have developed to explain this phenomenon are listed below. Select three and define/explain each of these in 75 words or less (3 responses X 75 words each = 225 words MAX).
Cultural Cognition
Dual Processing
Theory New Ecological Paradigm
The Risk Society
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