Tversky & Kahneman's 1981 paper coining 'decision frame' cites no linguistic or sociological framing literature — its stated ancestry is decision theory, psychophysics, and Simon's bounded rationality

The primary paper that introduced the psychological "framing effect" to a wide audience — Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's "The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice" (Science, 1981) — defines its key term without reference to Goffman, Fillmore, or any linguistics source: "We use the term 'decision frame' to refer to the decision-maker's conception of the acts, outcomes, and contingencies associated with a particular choice." The paper's 26 numbered references are drawn entirely from decision theory and psychology — von Neumann & Morgenstern, Savage, the authors' own 1979 prospect theory paper, Allais, Fishburn, Herbert Simon on bounded rationality, and psychophysical work on perceptual scaling. Neither Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974) nor any Fillmore or Lakoff work appears anywhere in the reference list.

This is direct primary evidence that at the moment the psychology side coined its technical sense of "frame," it was not drawing on the sociological or linguistic frame literature. The finding is an argument from silence over a bounded, fully-read reference list — the strong form graded in claim-mcgrew-argument-from-silence-is-notice-record-survive-product, where notice, record, and survival of the citations all approach certainty (a published reference list is exhaustive and preserved). It does not prove the authors were unaware of the other traditions, only that they built the concept from a different ancestry. Paired with Lakoff's mirror-image genealogy and Entman's later synthesis, it grounds the vault's reading of the two framing traditions as independent convergence. See moc-argument-from-silence.