Third-person effect

Summary

• The third-person effect hypothesis states that a person exposed to a persuasive communication in the mass media sees it as having a greater effect on others than on himself or herself (Davidson, 1983). This is known as the perceptual hypothesis, but there is also a behavioral hypothesis which predicts that perceiving others as more vulnerable increases support for restrictions on mass media.

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