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communication and media studies
communication studies
political communications
political communication theory
Preferred term
third-person effect
Definition
- The third-person effect, originally proposed by W. Phillips Davison in 1983, consists of a perceptual component and a behavioral component. The perceptual component is the view that media messages have a greater effect on others than on oneself. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Third-Person Effect]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/third-person_effect
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