Third-person effect
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title:
Third-person effect
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The third-person effect hypothesis predicts that people tend to perceive that mass media messages have a greater effect on others than on themselves, based on personal biases. The third-person effect manifests itself through an individual's overestimation of the effect of a mass communicated message on the generalized other, or an underestimation of the effect of a mass communicated message on themselves. These types of perceptions stem from a self-motivated social desirability, a social-distanc
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Hypothesis in social sciences related to the perception of media effects
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_effect
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2024-03-25T11:08:03Z
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