The social representations theory has been applied in many different settings including in understanding representations of mental illness, representations of condoms among the youths, and representations of risky sexual behaviour in an era of HIV/AIDS [ 33, 38, 39].
Moreover, based on this way of understanding political representation, Young provides an alterative account of democratic representation.
In contrast, researchers motivated by understanding the representation of color have used memory to make inferences about the representation of color at different levels of the visual system (cf. Allred & Flombaum, 2014; Brady et al., 2011; Olivers & Schreij, 2014).
The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ) [ 32] was used to assess illness perceptions concerning consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, concern, understanding, emotional representations, and causal representations.
Williams offers her understanding of representation as mediation as a supplement to what she regards as the traditional conception of liberal representation.
There are two main benefits of Young's understanding of representation.
First, her understanding of representation encourages us to recognize the diversity of those being represented.
Moreover, there are ways of understanding pictorial representation that presuppose neither phenomenality nor analogicity.
